The article analyzes and interprets the fourth-century BC burial mound complex located near the village of Kremeneyeka (Donetsk region, Ukraine) in the North-Eastern Azov region. The exact types of amphorae are determined, and the date of the complex is specified-within the third quarter of the IV century BC. Based on stratigraphic data, a funerary rite unique to the steppes of the Northern Black Sea region has been completely reconstructed and described.
Keywords: Northern Azov region, mounds, Trizna, Scythians, amphorae, cast bronze cauldron, plate horse headpiece, IV century AD.
In 1977. The Donetsk expedition of the IA of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR led by S. Bratchenko investigated a group of mounds near the village of Kremenevka in the Volodarsky district of the Donetsk region. 1, A). Here, among the objects of the Bronze Age, a mound of Scythian time No. 5 and an object with the remains of a trizna of the same period - mound No. 7-were excavated. However, in the scientific literature, opinions were expressed based on erroneous definitions of most amphorae, which are given in the excavation report, for example, that the burial mound is not a monument. N 5 is a sanctuary of the IV century. B.C., and coorg. N 7 is a sanctuary that functioned during the Scythian-Sarmatian period from the fourth century BC to the first century AD [Shepko and Shvetsov, 1998, p. 118; Shepko, 1999, p. 33; 2000, p. 101; Boltrik, 2007, p.47]. According to the report [Bratchenko et al., [1977], pp. 15-17, 25-27], Kurgan. N 5 and 7 were located on a gentle slope of the steppe plateau 200 m east of the main group of mounds near the village of Kremenevka, which are elongated in an uneven chain on the dividing ridge in the north-west - south-east direction (Fig. The mounds were tightly adjacent in their floors to each other. No. 7 was located just 5 m west of Mound No. 5. Excavation of both sites began with bulldozing trenches up to the mainland, which passed through the ce ...
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