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  • Kyiv (Desyatynna tserkva)
  • misto Kyiv., vul. Volodymyrivs’ka, 2
  • Desyatynna tserkva
  • Ukraine
  • Kyiv City

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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 excavation area was 120 m2. The excavation V is very informative (102 m2).
    It is situated to the northwest from Desyatynna Tserkva. Excavation was at the area of southeastern part of Starokyivs’ka Hora (Starokyivs’ka Hill) and crossing the fosse. Thickness of the ocсupation layer nearly 2 m. There were some small fragments of hand-made pottery of Scythian time (6th — 4th cent. BC.).
    In the western part of the excavation V was found a part of a big rectangular building. Building was deepened into a virgin soil on 0,8 m. There were revealed the remains of the wooden siding. Judging from the finds complex dated to third part of the 10th cent. AD. There were few fragmets of pots, three Pyrophyllite spindles, two bone borers, two glass beads and a piece of the glass ring. Above those objects were found remains of burned household building which dated to the end of 12th—13th cent. AD. There were remains of people, which had been killed by Mongols in December 1240 in the foundation trench of this building.
    Two small pits and two ditches belonged to the after-mongol time (the second half of the 13th — 14th cent. AD) There was found a fragment of a fresco with the image of the saint with a gesture of blessing.
    Central and east part of excavation V was crossed by the trace of fosse, which belonged to the fortress of Starokyivs`ke horodyshche (hillfort). There was founded multilayer’s wooden – ground construction, which was consisted of ten stages.

Director

  • Івакін Гліб Юрійович — член-кореспондент НАН України, професор, заступник директора, заввідділом / Ivakin Glib Yuriyovich — Member of the NASU, Professor, Deputy Director, head of the department - Національна академія Наук України, Інститут Археології/ The National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Institute of Archaeology

Team

  • Козюба Віталій Костянтинович — молодший науковий співробітник / Kozyuba Vitaliy Kostyantynovych — Associate Research Fellow - Інститут археології НАН України / Institute of Archaeology NAS of Ukraine
  • Комар Олексій Вікторович — кандидат історичних наук, науковий співробітник відділу / Komar Oleksiy Viktorovych — Ph.D. in History, researcher - Відділ давньоруської і середньовічної археології Інституту археології НАН України / Ancient and medieval Archaeology department of Institute of Archaeology NAS of Ukraine
  • Манігда Ольга Володимирівна — аспірантка / Manihda Ol’ha Volodymyrivna — postgraduate student - Інститут археології НАН України / Institute of Archaeology NAS of Ukraine

Research Body

  • Institute of Archaeology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
  • Інститут українознавства ім. І. Крип’якевича НАН України / Ivan Krypyakevych Institute of Ukrainian Studies of the National Academy of Science
  • Державний Ермітаж / The state Hermitage

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