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Excavation

  • Kara-Tobe
  • AR Krym, Saks`kyy rayon, misto Saky, misto Yevpatoriya, Muzey-zapovidnyk Kara-Tobe
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  • Ukraine
  • Crimea
  • Yevpatoriiskyi Raion

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  • The Italian Database is the result of a collaboration between:

    MIBAC (Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali - Direzione Generale per i Beni Archeologici),

    ICCD (Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo e la Documentazione) and

    AIAC (Associazione Internazionale di Archeologia Classica).

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Summary (English)

  • In 2007 (the investigations of the south-western area) a segment of Scythian citadel`s wall (length 7 m, width to 1,2 m) was discovered. Two rooms were also found adjacent with the wall. The masonry of the wall was an emplecton faced with stones. It was repeatedly reconstructed and strengthened, with a new face which brought its thickness to 1.5 m. In the south-western corner of the citadel was located room 56. There was stripped to the early occupation level, consisting of pressed clay and ash. Room 51 is adjacent to room 56 on the north. It was destroyed by fire in the first quarter of the 1 century AD. A burned deposit mark the 2nd and final construction period.In this room was uncovered a small area along western wall of the citadel. Inside a burned deposit above the floor were found sherds of hand-made pottery, miniature pottery, two burnt deer horns, and the golden end-piece of a hryvna (chest decoration) or a large bracelet. This end-piece was made from thin gold and looks like a truncated conical cuff with a volumetric lion`s head at the end.
    In the masonry of the southern wall was discovered the top part of a small limestone stele with relief or inscription, consisting of a triangular fronton with acroteria.
    In south-western area was found two intact graves in rudimentary undercuts. Both burials lack grave goods.In southern area were disassembled fragments of construction remains of the 3rd and of 2nd construction periods.During the investigation of the construction remains it found that most of the area citadel`s wall was additionally constructed extra shell (width — 0,3 —0,4 m).
    During the excavations in the southern area a paved yard was covered by a layer of ash containing a few sherds of the late 1st century BC- early 1st century AD. , including the neck of aсolorless glass balsamario.In quadrant 72 were found a rectangular dugout 14, partiallly in masonry, and pavements of the 3rd construction period. All of those buildings are dated to the 1st century AD.
    The dugout 14 differ from other previously-discovered dugouts of the hillfort. It was 3,9 × 3,0 m in size, the depth to 1 m. Along western and eastern walls of the dugout was found a narrow stair against the unplastered lateral surface. The dugout was intentionally filled. Artifacts found in the filling is dated to the last quarter 1 century AD. Of special interest are a terracotta statuette, depicting a boy with a rooster. This dugout is the earliest among the dugouts discovered in the hillfort.
    In quadrant 72 were found a bronze bracelet with ends resembles snake`s heads, and a small two-edged iron dagger. The dagger was found on the surface of the ancient cultural layer directly under the modern dumps. The well-preserved metal of the dagger may indicate latest more recent origin than the occupation layer.During the removal of the pavement of the upper chronological horizon in room 58 (construction horizon Ib) was found a broken limestone slab with a relief image of a horseman. This relief is similar to the Hellenistic reliefs from territory of the Kingdom of the Bosporus.Also during this season of excavations on the territory of the hillfort 7 grain pits of different sizes were investigated. They are attributed to different periods.

Director

  • Внуков Сергій Юрійович — доктор історичних наук, провідний науковий співробітник Інституту археології Російської академії наук / Serhii Yu. Vnukov — Doctor of History, Senior Scientific Worker of the Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences - Інститут археології Російської академії наук (Москва) / Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow)

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Research Body

  • Інститут археології Російської академії наук (Москва) / Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow)
  • Кара-Тобінська археологічна експедиція ІА РАН / Kara-Tobe Archaeological expedition of Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences

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