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The article is devoted to the publication of a unique bronze jug from the cache of the burial of a young woman in a burial mound excavated in 1989 near the Krasny Kut Farmstead on the left bank of the river Manych, dating from the second half of the 2nd - early 3rd century AD. The jug has already been described and discussed several times in the 1990s, so in this article I shall limit myself to the main conclusions and also present new parallels and considerations. The images on both the handle and the body of the jug are associated with the Trojan cycle, a description of the events that took place during the siege of Troy, the death of Achilles and the story of the sacrifice of Polyxena by Neoptolemus at the tomb of his father. If we accept the dating of the jug in question, substantiated here, to the 2nd century AD, and even more to the period of the Marcomannic Wars, it is obvious that there was not a big gap between the time of manufacture of the jug and its deposition in the burial, although there is no need to talk about the connection between the context of the find and the symbolism of the jug - it was hidden in the cache of the burial of a young Sarmatian woman, probably not its first owner, and the routes along which it travelled to the nomads in the vicinity of Tanais could have been different, including that via the Cimmerian Bosporus. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A collection of Roman Period metal objects was acquired with the help of a metal detector survey in the vicinity of Přelouč. The artefacts were handed over to the City Museum in Přelouč. Of special impor tance among this collection is a Roman gilt finger ring made from a copper alloy, dated back to the 2nd–3rd centuries AD, and a pyriform balsamarium of the type Bienert 102/103. The collection is dominated by brooches, which can be dated from the end of the 1st century until the 4th century. Most of them belong to the Late or Final Roman Iron Age. This might indicate that the settlement reached its peak within this time period.

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A collection of Roman Period metal objects was acquired with the help of a metal detector survey in the vicinity of Přelouč. The artefacts were handed over to the City Museum in Přelouč. Of special importance among this collection is a Roman gilt finger ring made from a copper alloy, dated back to the 2nd--3rd centuries AD, and a pyriform balsamarium of the type Bienert 102/103. The collection is dominated by brooches, which can be dated from the end of the 1st century until the 4th century. Most of them belong to the Late or Final Roman Iron Age. This might indicate that the settlement reached its peak within this time period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In 2017, in Závod (district of Malacky) during forestry works a destroyed Germanic burial ground dated to the Roman period was found. On the basis of topographical data and composition of finds, it is possible, to identify this burial ground with that mentioned by E. Beninger. The numerous imports from Roman provinces, from areas north of the Carpathian mountains and Elbe area region, show intensive multiregional contacts held by the local community. There is an ongoing discussion whether this is a proof of extensive trade, cultural influence or ethnic transfers. The burial ground dates back to a period comprised between the last third of the 1st century and the 4th century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

În articol sunt descrise „ciocănaşele” de la uşile locuinţelor din cartierele vechi ale Anatoliei Centrale. „Ciocănaşele de uşă” reprezintă nişte cópii ale mânerelor lighenelor din bronz din secolul I p. Chr., cunoscute în arheologie ca „lighene Eggers 92”. Descoperirile de lighene Eggers 92 sunt concentrate în provinciile romane din bazinul Rinului, în Germania şi Dacia, iar ataşe ajurate ale mânerelor au fost descoperite şi în mormintele sarmatice din regiunea Povolgiei. Toate aceste piese se încadrează în perioada cuprinsă între a doua jumătate a sec. I a. Chr. şi prima jumătate a sec. I p. Chr. În Asia Mică nu sunt cunoscute descoperiri de lighene Eggers 92, însă familiarizarea meşterilor turci cu astfel de recipiente este evidentă. Regiunea în care apar „ciocănaşe de uşă”, care repetă mânerele lighenelor, este periferia provinciei Galatia – locul de trai al celţilor de est. În această regiune nu doar pătrund produse meşteşugăreşti din Celtica europeană şi sudul Italiei, dar reprezintă şi un spaţiu de tranzit al importurilor din perioada La Tène târziu mai departe spre est şi nord.

Until now, Osówka (Fig. 1) has been known from the scant mention by Stefan Nosek who described an accidentally discovered grave of the Przeworsk Culture. In 1994, attempts were made to localise the site, but they proved unsuccessful. The breakthrough came in 2008 thanks to three bronze brooches that were handed over to Ass. Prof. Piotr Łuczkiewicz from the Institute of Archaeology at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University. In the same year, a local site inspection was carried out to further verify the find. During exploration of the site, several fragments of pottery were found, including possibly shards of Przeworsk Culture vessels. The brooches from Osówka were typologically identified as a late form of the Almgren 41 type, an Almgren 96 type, and a provincial Roman knee brooch of the Almgren 247 type. Almgren 41 brooches are widespread in Wielbark Culture areas and much less common in Przeworsk Culture areas. Such brooches are traditionally dated to the late stage of phase B2 and above all to phases B2/C1 or B2/C1-C1a. Based on size, the Osówka copy (Fig. 2:a) was determined as type X1 according to the classification proposed by Jan Schuster. This is an interregional form mostly found in female burials. Almgren 96 brooches (Fig. 2:b) are typical of the Wielbark Culture, however, in much smaller numbers they also appear in the Przeworsk Culture area. The type is the guiding form of the B2/C1 phase. The third brooch (Fig. 2:c), having a semi-circular head plate ornamented with a so-called wolf teeth pattern should be assigned to type 13D after Werner Jobst or to variant 3.12.1 according to the classification by Emilie Riha. These types of brooches are characteristic of the Danube and Rhine provinces of the Roman Empire where were in use mostly in the 2nd and 3rd century CE. Osówka brooches confirm that that the site was a Roman Period cemetery. The grave published by Stefan Nosek proves that in phase B2 it was used by a local Przeworsk community. Three brooches found in 2008 are evidence that the cemetery remained in use in phase B2/C1. However, it is very difficult to determine its cultural affiliation in this phase. In eastern Poland (i.e. right-bank Mazovia, Podlachia, and the Lublin Region) at the turn of the early and late Roman Period, the current Przeworsk settlement was gradually replaced by the Wielbark settlement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the collection of the Museum of Warmia and Masuria in Olsztyn, there is a Roman provincial brooch made of copper alloy (Fig. 1). It was found in the northern suburbs of Zalewo in the County of Iława, NE Poland. Administratively, the area belongs to the village of Bajdy, located about three kilometres to the north-west. The artefact represents a group of brooches with two knobs on the bow (German Doppelknopffibeln), type 236 in keeping with Oscar Almgren, variant c according to a detailed study by Jochen Garbsch. Such specimens are characterised primarily by a frame-like foot and the construction of the spring mechanism in which the chord is held in place by a relatively narrow hook. Brooches with a double knob on the bow, the so-called winged brooches (Almgren 238) and characteristic openwork belt fittings are considered to be some of the main metal elements of Norico-Pannonian female dress. Almgren 236c-variant fibulae are indeed largely concentrated in the area of Noricum and Pannonia, although they are also known from Raetia and, in smaller numbers, from the northern parts of Italy and Dalmatia. Their local manufacture is confirmed by, for example, the casting moulds and partly finished pieces found at a Noric settlement in Magdalensberg, Carinthia. Fibulae of variant Almgren 236c are also very numerous in Barbaricum and indicate contacts, mainly of a commercial nature, with Roman provinces. According to recently published compilations, specimens representing this variant were present at more than 50 sites in several distinct concentrations: in the Czech Republic, south-western Slovakia and adjacent parts of Lower Austria and Poland (Fig. 2). North of the Carpathians and the Sudetes, Almgren 236c brooches are more clearly concentrated in the territory occupied by the Przeworsk Culture in central Poland, western Lesser Poland and right-bank Mazovia. The last large area of concentration is on the Lower Vistula River, at a few sites of the Wielbark Culture. The chronology of Almgren 236c brooches in the territory of the Roman Empire covers the entire 1st century CE. Such fibulae are found in contexts from the late period of Augustus's reign to the rule of Trajan, although most of the assemblages do not date beyond the Claudian period, i.e. the middle of the first century. Even though Almgren 236c brooches are often part of grave-goods in the area of Barbaricum, the number of precisely dated assemblages is, unfortunately, small. In the Czech Republic, these forms are considered to define stage B1b after Eduard Droberjar, corresponding in absolute chronology to 20/30-40/50 CE, or, more broadly, late phase B1 of the classical (Czech) eye brooch horizon up to 50/70 CE. In the areas north of the Carpathians and the Sudetes, Almgren 236c fibulae should also be dated to the mature stage of phase B1. According to the studies carried out so far, the northern part of the Iława Lakeland in phase B1 was part of a vast deserted area separating the territories occupied by the populations of the Wielbark Culture on the Lower Vistula and the Nogat, of the Przeworsk Culture in Northern Mazovia, of the Bogaczewo Culture in Masuria and of the Dollkeim-Kovrovo Culture in Sambia (Fig. 3). The site where the Bajdy fibula was discovered is closest to the Wielbark Culture settlement, south of the ancient bay of the Vistula Lagoon, whose remnant is the present-day Drużno Lake; it lies about 20 km by air from the Święty Gaj cemetery and the remains of a dyke in Bągart. The Almgren 236c brooch from Bajdy, together with a recently discovered and yet unpublished Almgren 18b fibula from nearby Przezmark, as well unpublished Almgren 53 fibula from Jawty Wielkie, is the oldest trace of penetration of the northern part of the Iława Lakeland by the people of the Wielbark Culture. These episodes should be dated to the phase B1, i.e. several decades before regular settlement activity of the Wielbark Culture in phase B2b, which led to the occupation of extensive areas of the Iława Lakeland, the Warmian Plain and the western edge of the Olsztyn Lakeland, reaching roughly up to the longitudinal line of the Pasłęka River. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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A leggyakrabban a germán vandál etnikummal azonosított Przeworsk-kultúra magyarországi településeinek kutatása az elmúlt évtizedben fontos új eredményeket hozott. A tanulmány e római császárkori kultúrkör Magyarország területén feltárt településeinek legújabb kutatási eredményeit foglalja össze, illetve ennek alapján foglakozik a település terület kiterjedésével, a relatív kronológia problémájával, az anyagi kultúra fejlődésével és a kultúra kapcsolatrendszereivel. The archaeological investigation of the settlements of the Przeworsk culture, generally identified with the Germanic Vandals, has yielded important new results during the past decade. The study reviews the new advances made in the study of the settlements of this Roman-period cultural complex in Hungary and addresses various issues such as the extent of the settlement territory, the problems in relative chronology, the development of material culture and the culture's connections. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In the first half of the 1st millennium AD the contacts of the population of the forest-steppe zone of Ukraine with the provincial-Roman world were intensified. They were associated with the formation of the province of Dacia, whose borders reached the Carpathian Mountains, with the wars on limes, which involved numerous barbaric tribes, with trade and exchange relations, and others like that. The establishment of such relationships was due to bilateral interests: on the one hand, the Roman administration was interested in political and economic stability in the near-limes territories, and on the other hand, good-neighborly relations and trade relations with Rome were beneficial to various strata of the barbaric society, primarily the nobility. The evidence of such contacts was Roman imports, which in large numbers were coming to the land of modern Ukraine in the form of coins, ornaments, amphora containers, prestigious red-lacquer, metal and glass utensils, household items, etc. The Gunn invasion destroyed the existing system of trade relations and the political balance of power which caused the ultimate collapse of the Roman Empire. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study aims to analyse the finds that can be connected to what we defined as being the first stage of Sarmatian diffusion in Wallachia. The purpose is not to insist on the date of the arrival, which was debated on several occasions, for it would mean to contradict ourselves and restart a possibly endless argument on dating funerary features. Instead, the purpose is to detail, as far as the funerary finds allow us to do so, the image of the Sarmatian communities that the Romans allowed to settle close to the limes of Moesia Inferior.

This paper is devoted to studying cultural monuments – bronze vessels, a jug and a basin from the barrow no. 1/1967 of the Lebedevka Late Sarmatian burial mound (Western Kazakhstan), dating back to the middle of the 3rd century AD at the latest. These items do not find exact parallels among the bronze vessels of provincial Rome. Although the shape of the jug handle with a curved leaf turned upright between two horizontally arranged swan heads has parallels on the so-called “composite jug with handles” (“gegliederten Henkelkrügen”), the cylindrical form of the jug’s neck peculiar of the glass jugs of allegedly Syrian manufacture of the second half of the 3rd-4th centuries AD is very unusual. Even more unusual is a basin with horizontally bent rim and elaborate handles with pearls on a high narrow stand-ring. The XRF analyses of the Lebedevka jug’s metal revealed that its body and handle were made of a copper-based alloy with very high admixtures of zinc (24-27 %) and inconsiderable additions of lead (up to 3 %). A similar alloy was used for manufacturing a vessel in the form of a crouching young negro from Niederbieber. Most objects of provincial Roman import reached Western Kazakhstan via the Bosporan kingdom along the Northern branch of the Silk Road. The above discussed bronze vessels from Lebedevka let suggest, that the nomads could receive some import articles that were brought along the caravan routes leading from Egypt and Syria to the East.

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In the last decade, the Hungarian research of settlements belonging to the Przeworsk culture, generally identified with the Germanic Vandals, yielded important new results. The aim of this paper is to summarize these latest results based on which it also discusses the extension of the settlement territory, the problems of relative chronology, the evolution of material culture as well as the relations of the above-mentioned Germanic ethnic group in the Roman Imperial Age1. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There is only a handful of burial sites dated to the Roman Period on the territory of the Eastern Slovakia. Only hitherto excavated cemetery dating to this period is located in Zemplín. In the year 2014 new Przeworsk culture cemetery was identified in Rankovce. During four seasons of the archaeological research forty-six burials were excavated at the site. Cemetery can be dated to the phases B2b - C1a of Roman Period and assigned to the Eastern zone of the Przeworsk culture based on the inventory of the burials. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article concerns the grave of a male at Aasø on Zealand in Denmark, discovered by chance in the second half of the nineteenth century. The grave goods are among the richest male burial inventories from Late Roman-Iron Age. Besides a set of provincial Roman vessels, gaming stones and a game board, horn- and belt-fittings, weapon components were also found, which is not at all typical for burials on Zealand. This inventory forms the basis of a discussion of the 'taboo on weapons' as found in burials rites on Zealand, a custom through which the island differed from neighbouring areas throughout the later pre-Roman Iron Age, the Imperial Roman period and the early Migration period. Formal and technological features of the shield boss found at Aasø are also discussed; the boss does correspond to other contemporary shield bosses from northern Europe, but the way it was produced distinctly resembles that of Roman products. The components of a belt found in the grave leads to a discussion of a separate topic, the hitherto rather few clear connections documented between Zealand and the south-eastern Baltic Sea. As there is no information about the position of the individual grave goods in the Aasø grave, their position had to be reconstructed hypothetically with reference to other late Roman Age burials on Zealand. Given the data available on this aspect, a general pattern can be identified with respect to the deposition of grave goods in Late Roman-Iron Age graves on Zealand. Further, an analysis of the social differentiation within the populations living along the River Suså is presented. This micro-regional investigation examined the late Roman grave inventories known from this region, which includes the grave at Aasø. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The present study takes into discussion the trade relationships between the Roman Empire and India, reflected both in literary contemporary sources and in archaeological finds. Among the different material categories (pottery, bronze objects, coins), there are many glass vessels. The majority seems to come from Alexandria or Levant, but the high number glass vessels manufactured in western or Italian style, found in the western side of the Indian Ocean, reflects the amplitude and in the meantime the specific features of these trade connexions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The excavation of a tomb of the Roman-Parthian period in Dibba Al Hisn, Sharjah, is discussed. The contents provide evidence of far-ranging trade contacts extending from the Mediterranean to India. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]