“The mound in the Bish-Oba tract”, excavations of P. S. Nazarov of 1890 (mound 1 of the Sara burial ground), the history of the study and today’s view
Vitaliy K. Fedorov, Candidate of Historical Sciences, Leading Rresearcher
R. G. Kuzeev Institute for Ethnological Studies — Subdivision of the Ufa Federal Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ufa, Russia, syyri@yandex.ru, https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0643-8268
Abstract
he article is devoted to the materials obtained during the excavations of a mound in the Orsk District of the Orenburg Province carried out by a full member of the Orenburg Archival Commission P. S. Nazarov. In Russian historiography it long bore the name of “the mound in the Bish-Oba tract”. In fact it is Mound 1 of the Sara burial ground. Remarkable finds made there have repeatedly attracted the attention of researchers. Some of them are unique for the culture of Southern Urals early nomads — a bronze mirror of the Olbian (Borisfenite) type, gold biconical earrings, items of carved bone with zoomorphic images — a spoon and a finial, as well as ornamented gold stamped badges. The materials of the mound as a single complex have never been the subject of a complete and comprehensive research. The article examines in detail all the surviving materials and makes an attempt to reconstruct the funeral rite of this burial. The burial dates back to the end of the 6th — the beginning of 5th century B.C.
Keywords
Orenburg Province, mounds, early nomads, Bish-Oba burial ground, Sara burial ground, Olbian mirror, gold earrings, animal style, carved bone, spoon.
Acknowledgments: The study was implemented within the state assignment no. 122031400062-7 of the Institute of Ethnological Studies of the Ufa Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences for 2022—2024 “Historical and cultural heritage of the Southern Urals and Cis-Urals: exploration, preservation and museification”
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Fedorov V. K. “The mound in the Bish-Oba tract”, excavations of P. S. Nazarov of 1890 (mound 1 of the Sara burial ground), the history of the study and today’s view. Vestnik of Orenburg State Pedagogical University. Electronic Scientific Journal, 2023, no. 4 (48), pp. 202—256. DOI: https://doi.org/10.32516/2303-9922.2023.48.12.
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