Зеркала из Светловодского могильника
The mirrors from the Svitlovodsk cemetery

Summary/Abstract: Mirrors are one of the most significant categories of Scythian material culture. These objects were actively used by the Scythian nobility and the ordinary population. The mirrors of the ordinary population are represented in the Svitlovodsk repository in the south of the Dnieper Right-Bank Forest-Steppe, investigated by N.М. Bokiy and I.A. Kozyr. These items were found in 8 women's graves (5% of their total number). As a rule, they are fixed in richer complexes. Most often they were placed at the breast or under the back of a dead person. The basis of the mirrors was a round bronze disc. They belong to several types: 1. mirrors with a wooden handle that has not been preserved; 2. mirrors with an iron handle, having an oval extension at the end; 3. mirrors with an iron handle extending at the end; 4. mirrors with a bronze rectangular handle. These artefacts have analogies in Steppe Scythia and East European Forest-Steppe. Mirrors from Svetlovodsk dated IV. B.C.

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