Scythian-Time Daggers with Simplified Cross-Guards (Based on the Materials from the National Museum of History of Ukraine)

In this article, daggers from the depository of the National Museum of History of Ukraine having simple geometrical cross-guard with segment or rectangular form are analyzed. Due to the set of analogies, they are dated from the mid 6th to mid 5th centuries BC. The ornamentation of well-known examples is considered from the new point of view. First of all, a significant difference in ornamentation technique between the Middle Scythian daggers with segment cross-guard and the Late Scythian swords is accentuated. The samples discussed demonstrate much simpler technique of decoration and find their analogies in the antiquities of cultures situated to the east from European Scythia. For instance, a spiral ornament on hilts tends to ornamentation of daggers from Ural Steppe. Zoomorphic images on the handles could be interpreted as full-face depictions of predators. Similar compositions are sometimes found on items of the Middle Scythian period. Their beginnings can be traced in Sauromatian culture of the Lower Volga Region or in Ananyino culture in high basin of the Volga River

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• Scythian-Time Sword from the Zamkova Hora in Kyiv (on the Materials of V.V. Khvoiko Research)

  Open Access•Oleksandr Shelekhan, Maksym Osypenko•Arheologia•2019

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