A Sauromatian Culture Burial with a Faience Casket in the Orenburg Region
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https://doi.org/10.24852/2587-6112.2025.4.120.128Keywords:
archaeology, Southern Urals, Sauromatian culture, burial rite, import, Egyptian faience casket, incrustation made of glazeAbstract
The article for the first time publishes data on burial 3 in barrow 3 of barrow field II near the village of Kalikino on the Tok river in the Orenburg region. The burial stood out among the numerous burials of the Early Iron Age in this barow due to the discovery of an object of imported origin. The green faience box is unique both in its form and the materials used in its production, as well as in the ornamental composition of the incrustation. This incrustation, assembled from multicolored glazed tiles, is located on the lid and the outer walls of the box. No complete parallel to this object has been found. The burial rite allows Burial 3 at the Kalikino II burial ground to be attributed to the Sauromatian culture and dated to the period between the 6th and 5th centuries BC. As a preliminary conclusion, considering the need for further study of such a unique object, it is suggested that the casket was manufactured in one of the craft centers of Ancient Egypt.
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