Two Hungarian Graves of the 9th Century in the Danube-Dnister Steppes Cover Image
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Два венгерских погребения IX века в Дунай-Днестровских степях
Two Hungarian Graves of the 9th Century in the Danube-Dnister Steppes

Author(s): Maksym V. Kvitnytskyi, Attila Türk, Nicolai P. Telnov, Sergey D. Lysenko, Vitalii S. Sinika
Subject(s): History, Archaeology, Middle Ages, 6th to 12th Centuries, Migration Studies
Published by: Издательский дом Stratum, Университет «Высшая антропологическая школа»
Keywords: Etelköz; North-West Black Sea region; 9th century; Early Hungarian graves; golden foil; arrowhead

Summary/Abstract: The paper considers two early medieval burial mound complexes investigated in the North-Western Black Sea region, in the south of the Dniester-Prut interfluve. A fragment of the arrowhead and gold foil were preserved from the grave 13/1 from Olănești cemetery (the right bank of the Lower Dniester), and only gold foil were preserved from the burial 6/4 from Balabanu-2 cemetery. It is evident that these graves belonged to ordinary community members.Modern analysis of the funerary rite (bone from sacrificial food near the buried shoulder, the presence of charcoal in the grave) and a few accompanying equipment (arrowhead wrapped in gold foil, as well as finds of gold foil plates of various shapes) allow us to consider these burials to be Hungarian and date them to the 9th — the beginning of the 10th century.

  • Issue Year: 2020
  • Issue No: 5
  • Page Range: 329-339
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Russian