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Excavation

  • Verhniy Saltiv IV (mohyl`nyk)
  • selo Verhniy Saltiv, Vovchans`kyy rayon, Kharkivs`ka oblast`
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  • Ukraine
  • Kharkiv
  • Chuhuiv City Council

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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)

  • Two areas (the northern area — 75, 5 sq. m., the southern area — 77,25 sq. m.) were excavated during the rescue campaign in the Verhniy Saltiv IV catacomb cemetery in 2010. As a result of excavations a fifth catacombs was found (102—106).
    In the most of the catacombs the chambers are cross situated to the dromoses. Only one catacomb (103) has longitudinal burial chamber. The most of the burials has traces of the re-entry, except the Catacomb 102, but here the skeletons were intentionally damaged in ancient times.The number and sex-age distribution in the burials are not the same. In Catacombs 102 and 106 were revealed only male`s remains with goods including: belt sets, knives, a chisel (Catacomb 106), fire-steel (Catacomb 102).The fire-steel with a grind stone were in a bag, of which the bronze button was preserved.
    In the Catacomb 103 were discovered the remains of a child and women. Grave goods were represented by bronze molded button-mirrors, bone awls, a belt divider, bronze bracelets, bead necklaces, repoussé buttons, plate decorations, a frontlet (Abbasid dirhem minted in 779AD in Madina as-Salam).
    In the Catacomb 105 was discovered a double burial. The male`s grave goods was represented by elements of a belt set, fragments of a horn reliquary, the remains of the horse harness decorations. The female`s grave goods was represented by a necklace, pendants, and an earring. In Catacomb 104 were discovered three skeletons (a male, a female and a child). There were a gilded bronze earing, golden earrings, bronze rings, a mirror, a bronze amulet resembling a horse figurine and bronze appliqué-decorations of the frontlet. Also there was found the silver medieval Arabian coin which was used as an appliqué (the bronze core and thin silver layer from above).The grave goods of the studied burials are dated to the 9th century AD.

Director

  • Аксьонов Віктор Степанович — кандидат історичних наук, завідувач відділу / Aksenov Viktor Stepanovych - Відділ археології Харківського історичного музею / Archaeology department of the Kharkiv historical museum

Team

  • Лаптєв Олексій Олександрович — аспірант / Laptev Oleksiy Oleksandrovych — graduate student - Харківська державна академія культури / Kharkiv State Academy of Culture

Research Body

  • Харківська державна академія культури / Kharkiv State Academy of Culture
  • Харківський історичний музей

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