Der Wagen aus dem Ersten Mittleren Kurgan auf dem Vasjurin-Berg (Tamanhalbinsel)

• Autores: Michail J. Treister
• Localización: Eurasia antiqua: Zeitschrift für Archäologie Eurasiens, ISSN 0949-0434, Nº. 19, 2013, págs. 89-104
• Idioma: alemán
• Títulos paralelos:
  • The Chariot from the First Middle Kurgan on the Vajsurin Mound (Tamman-Peninsula)
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• Resumen

  • THe article deals with the detailed analysis of the findings, such as parts of a chariot and a horse bridle obtainedfrom the grave chamber discovered 1871 by A. E. Ljutsenko in the First Middle burial mound of the Vasyurina Gora. The analysis of the objects demonstrates that, contrary to the existing viewpoints, the chariot cannot be dated prior to the end of the 3rd - beginning of the 2nd century BC. Furthermore, parallels can be drawn between the archaic style bronze caryatids and the sculpture and small plastic from Asia Minor. The chariot was buried with at least three harnessed horses, thereof two can be considered as the best examples of the front harness of the Hellenistic period, and therefore can be confidently identifies as imports from Southern Italy, Eastern Mediterranean or Ptolemaic Egypt. A careful study of the avaiable materials, primarly bronze rings with portraits on shiels indicates that the relationship between the Bosporan Kingdom and Ptolemaic Egypt were not limited only to ambassadorial contacts that took place in the middle of the 3rd century BC and continued throughout the second half of the same century, which is indirectly confirmed by a significant number of rings with portraits of Berenice II and Arsinoi III found in the Bosporus. Although the central chamber of the First Middle mound built of a large limestone quadrels was almost completely plundered, we suggest that it was the burial of the highest Bosporian noble. This suggestion is supported by the fragments of at least two marble statues, including the colossal acrolith male sculpture initally installed on the mound