THRACIAN-TYPE WARE FROM THE SCYTHIAN BURIALS OF THE LATE 5TH - 4TH CENTURY BC FROM THE LEFT BANK OF THE LOWER DNIESTER (EXCAVATIONS OF 2015 AND 2018)

Abstract

The paper dwells on five handmade ceramic vessels excavated from the barrow groups "Garden" (russ."Sad") and "Sluiceway" (russ."Vodovod") near Glinoe village, Slobodzeya district, on the left bank of the Lower Dniester in 2015 and in 2018. Two cups (with bulges on the body and a mouth-rim curved inside) and three jars (with a handle raised above the mouth-rim) demonstrate the Thracian influence on the Scythian ceramics and on the Scythian material culture in general. One of the burials (with a jar) dates back to the turn of 4th century BC. The other three date back to the second half of the 4th century BC. One of the burials contained two cups, two others contained one jar each. Taking into account the new data related to the handmade ceramic vessels from Scythian burials on the left bank of the Lower Dniester dated back to the late 5th - 2nd century BC (the barrow groups "Sluiceway" and "Garden" with burials of the second half of the 5th - the first third of the 3rd century BC and the barrow cemetery near Glinoe of the 3rd - 2nd century BC), the Thracian influence on the Scythian material culture can be traced from the late 5th century BC to become more obvious from the second half of the 4th century BC.