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Excavation

  • Mohyl`nyk Neyzats
  • AR Krym, Bilohors`kyy rayon
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  • Ukraine
  • Crimea
  • Belogorskiy rayon

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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)

  • The Neyzats cemetery is located in the center of the Crimean foothills, 20 km eastward from Simferopol, 1.0-1.5 km southeast Balanovo village.Regular excavations of site have been conducted since 1996 (except for 1998). Over these years, 352 burials have been uncovered.
    In 2008, 27 burial sites were excavated: a chamber tomb, , 7 undercut graves, 17 simple graves and a slab grave. Also the investigation of chamber 18 was continued (it was not finished in 1996). Thus, by now 378 burial sites have been excavated in the the cemetery (60 chambers, 125 undercut graves, 192 simple burials and a slab grave).
    The funeral chamber of the crypt 18 was filled with bones, which were shifted aside during further burials. This rite, as well as grave goods (fibulae, a mirror, bracelets, earrings, bells, pendants, necklaces, etc.) date to the first half of the III century. The date is confirmed by the silver denarius with Septimius Severus coined in the year of 193. The design features of the crypt 18 comply with those of buildings that appeared in Crimea, when the ancestors of the medieval Alans migrated to the Crimean peninsula from the North Caucasus. It was believed that this migration refers to the time following Gothic campaigns carried out in the mid III century. The peculiarity of Neyzats graveyard is a significant number of horse burials. In 2008, three burials of this kind were found – in two cases they were accompanied by burials of dogs.
    Also in 2008 the early area of the cemetery was discovered. Until this year the earliest cultural and chronological horizon of the necropolis was dated back to the Late Sarmatian culture (late II – first half of the III century). In 2008 two graves of the earlier period were found. They are located on the northern outskirts of the excavated burial site.
    The undercut grave No. 355 was recently partially plundered. However, there are many things which preserved (such as the narrow-neck light-clay amphora with its neck dug into the bottom of the grave, type C according to the classification of D. Shelov, a set of Sarmatian censers many of which are made of iron, and details of horse armor coated with gold foil. In the entrance pit of this grave there was skeletonburied on his right side in a crouched positon . His hands were buried in a separate molded vessel of an unusual shape. In the level above the level of human burial a dog was buried.
    Inside the grave No. 374 the burial was made in two cuts. The southern cut was partially plundered in recent times. However, many of the grave goods were preserved (numerous gold beads and plaques, which decorated the clothes of the deceased, silver earrings, a fibula, necklaces, various iron wares). In the northern cut a buried male was found. There was also a high-neck light-clay amphora of type C, a molded dish, a bell, a sword with a circular finish hilt and horse harness, of which numerous iron details covered with gold foil survive.
    The finds from these graves make it possible to date them to the second – third quarter of the II century and to attribute it to the mid-Sarmatian culture. Due to the excavations of these graves we may suggest that Sarmatians arrived to the Crimean foothills along the valley of Zuya river much earlier than previously assumed. The process of nomad settlement was initiated in the II century AD.

Director

  • І.М. Храпунов (І.М. Khrapunov)— Professor - Таврійський національний університет ім. В. Вернадського (Tavric national university the name of V. Vernadskiy)

Team

  • В.П. Власов (V.P.Vlasov) - Таврійський національний університет ім. В. Вернадського (Tavric national university the name of V. Vernadskiy)
  • А.А. Стоянова (A.A. Stojanova) - Таврійський національний університет ім. В. Вернадського (Tavric national university the name of V. Vernadskiy)
  • С.А. Мульд (S.A. Muld) - Інститут сходознавства імені А.Ю. Кримського НАН України (Institute of orientalism of the name of A. Kryms`kiy to NAS of Ukraine)

Research Body

  • Інститут сходознавства імені А.Ю. Кримського НАН України (Institute of orientalism of the name of A. Kryms`kiy to NAS of Ukraine)
  • Таврійський національний університет ім. В. Вернадського (Tavric national university the name of V. Vernadskiy)

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