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Excavation

  • Mohyl`nyk Neyzats
  • AR Krym, Bilohors`kyy 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)

    • In 2009 archaeologists found 39 funeral constructions dated II-IVth century, including 19 underground graves, 19 undercut graves and a crypt at the area of three sites of the Neisats Cemetery.
      Two underground graves were intended for burying horses. Another grave was equipped with ledge, which was unique for this cemetery. Also during excavations in 2009 archaeologists investigated one burial dated to the Late Bronze Age. It is attributed to the Tashly-Bair cemetery dated to X-IXth centuries BC, located where the Neisats cemetery was and which was excavated in previous years.
      About half the graves of the Late Roman times was plundered, mostly in recent years. Burials contained such funeral-related items as: red-glazed wares and molded vessels, bridles, fibulas, elements of boxes, knives, spindle whorls, grindstones, belt heads, elements of diadem, bells, anthropomorphic pendants, mirrors, all kinds of jewelry (earrings, bracelets, rings), several thousand of beads. Finds from children\‘s graves of the IInd century were especially numerous and varied.
      Of particular interest is one of the graves, which had two undercuts. Within one of the undercuts a buried couple was found. The bones of a man buried in earlier times were moved aside a little, and the man who died later was buried with other things including a long Sarmatian sword. Also the remains of food which had been brought for the repose of deceased\‘s soul were identified here (remains of eggs, nuts).
      The peculiarity of the Neisats burial is that in the IVth century it was common to dug pits right over the graves so as to fill them with molded, glass and red-glazed vessels. In some cases the walls of the pits could not be traced (‘vessels aggregation’). In 2009 archaeologists found for the twentieth time such an aggregation. It contained 22 molded, 4 red-glazed and glass wares. They were put in a way that one ware was inside the other and very closely to each other. We can assume that the vessels that were used in burial ceremonies, were considered by people who lived in the valley of the river of Zuya in the IVth century as unfit for everyday use. So they left them in special pits, which were dug at the graveyard.
      Thus until now 417 burial constructions have been studied. In 2009 it became obvious that it was Sarmatians who began to bury their dead at the Neisats graveyard since the IInd century, as they settled there. In the IIIrd century the ancestors of medieval Alans, who came from the North Caucasus, also started to bury the deceased here. The cemetery ceased to function in the late IVth century.

    Director

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

    Team

    • 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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