Inscribed Ceremonial Dagger from a Princely Sarmatian Burial near the Village of Kosika in the Lower Volga Region

Belousov, A.V.; Treister, M.

Авторы: Belousov Alexey V., Treister Mikhail
Журнал: Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia
Том: 26
Номер: 1
Год издания: 2020
Издательство: BRILL ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS
Местоположение издательства: PLANTIJNSTRAAT 2, P O BOX 9000,LEIDEN, NETHERLANDS, 2300 PA
Первая страница: 172
Последняя страница: 206
DOI: 10.1163/15700577-12341363
Аннотация: The paper1 is devoted to the cross-guard of the fragmentary dagger found in 1984in the princely nomad burial near the village of Kosika in the Lower Volga area,belonging to the type of ceremonial daggers which were widespread in Eurasia in the1st century BC-1st century AD and which became one of the insignia of power as testifiedby the finds in the princely nomadic burials and depictions on the royal figures onthe stelae from Commagene. The dated (year 238) dotted inscription preserved on thegold overlay of the cross-guard by one of the authors in 2015 and completely cleanedfrom the iron oxides in 2017 contains an indication of the craftsmen and the weightof gold, confirmed by the eklogistes, which means estimated on the highest state level.The inscription allows us to suggest, with high degree of probability, that the daggermay have been manufactured either as a tax payment of the corporation to the state orrather was ordered by a king to serve as a gift to an equal person. Moreover, the analysisof the inscription suggests that the object could have been made in Asia Minor, perhaps in Commagene, in 74 BC (that means the date falls in the Seleucid era), ratherthan in 59 BC, because the existence of the eklogistes in the Pontic Kingdom has notbeen confirmed by any documents. This date corresponds well to the archaeologicaldate of the burial in Kosika to the early third quarter of the 1st century BC and thealready published hypothesis, that the deceased could have been a participant ofthe Asia Minor campaign of the Bosporan King Pharnakes in 49-47 BC.Keywords: Kosika; Lower Volga area; Sarmatians; ceremonial dagger; Asia Minor; Commagene; Parthia; Bosporan kingdom; Greek epigraphy; craft corporations; goldsmiths; eklogistes
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