Мikhail Treister
Biographic Data
| ID | 4816953 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Мikhail Treister |
| GIVEN NAMES | Мikhail |
| FAMILY NAME | Treister |
| SIGNATURE | TREISTER М |
| AFFILIATIONS | Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Zentrale |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7451-3325 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 57 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 57 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Silver Vessels from Isakovka and Sidorovka Necropoleis
The set of silver vessels from the Isakovka-I necropolis is represented both by types known from reliable finds only in Southern Italy and the Black Sea region (hemispherical bowls with polygonal decoration), and in the Pontic region (conical bowl decorated with a rosette and a garland), as well as segmented in profile bowls with chased decoration, the reliable finds of which are unknown. The whole series may originate from Iran. In this regard t…
Collection of Golden Horde Artifacts from Vicinities of Dianovo Village in the Middle Tobol Region
The article presents findings of the typological and technological analysis of the collection of Medieval artifacts collected near Dianovo village, Belozersky Municipal District, Kurgan Region. The items were obtained during the exploration of the Civil War fortifications severely demolished by 1919 war actions. Partly these fortifications had been erected in the territory of the destroyed Medieval settlement. The collection of finds is comprised…
Gold Pendants in the Form of Lion Heads from the Burials of the Last Quarter of the 5th Century BC from the Necropoleis of the Taman Peninsula
This paper focuses on the publication of gold pendants in the form of lion heads of the 5th century BC from the necropoleis of the Taman Peninsula. These pieces of jewellery belong to the most common type of gold pendants in the shape of animal heads, which are also represented by items in the form of bull and ram heads. The published pendants of all three groups are presented as a short catalogue in Appendices 1–3. They were widespread from Sout…
Fortifications of the Ust-Tersyuk fortified settlement of the Early Middle Ages
The article analyses early medieval structures of the outer fortification line in Ust-Tersyuk hillfort by the Iset River. The research is based on excavation finds made in 2010 and 2023. The fortified cape settlement is surrounded by a protection structure all around. Besides, it has two transverse structures that separate the cape and gullies and form two sites. One of the sites is pentagonal, the other one is octagonal. It is established that t…
Roman bronze amphoras from the Sarmatian burials of Eastern Europe
In the Sarmatian burials six intact or fragmented bronze amphoras and one separate handle of Tassinari types A3212 and A3220 were found. The peculiarities of shape, details and sizes discussed. The clear majority of large vessels (mainly from 40 to 44 cm high) in Thrace and Asian Sarmatia contrasts with the finds from Pompeii or Western and Central Europe. A significant number of amphoras from Sarmatia originate from the so-called ‘princely’ buri…
New find of Roman military equipment of the period of the Roman–Bosporan war of 45–49 AD from the Eastern Crimea
The Artezian fortified settlement in the Azov Sea coast of Eastern Crimea perished in a strong fire at the beginning of the Roman–Bosporan war in 46/47 AD. In the homogeneous fire layer, along with numerous items of jewellery, silver, bronze and glass vessels, a heavily burned out round bronze plaque, 7.7–7.8 cm in diameter with a hole in the centre was found. The plaque is decorated along the edge with a figural frieze, depicting two pairs of an…
Gold and Silver Lunula-Pendants from the AD 46/47 Burnt Layer of the Early Citadel of Artezian Fortified Settlement in Eastern Crimea
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The Most Western Find of a Chinese Mirror with T-shaped Hieroglyphs in Eurasia
The paper discusses the find of a Chinese mirror with T-shaped hieroglyphs, dated to the last third of the 5th–the first half of the 4th century BC and originating from a nomadic burial in the Southern Urals. This is not only the oldest find of a mirror of this type outside China, but also the most western find of a mirror of the Warring States Period in Eurasia. The chemical and technological characteristics of the mirror, studied with the help …
Roman Bronze Pateras of Eggers 154–155 Types in Sarmatia
В погребениях кочевников Азиатской Сарматии было найдено шесть целых или фрагментированных датирующихся в пределах I в.н.э.бронзовых патер типов Eggers 154-155, одна отдельная ручка, одна отдельная ножка, а также медальон патеры во вторичном использовании, которые подробно рассматриваются в данной статье с привлечением также редких находок римских бронзовых патер из Приднепровья, Юго-Западного Крыма, с территории Боспорского царства и из Прикубан…
Roman Bronze Oinochoes in the North Pontic Area
В Северном Причерноморье встречаются бронзовые ойнохои первых веков н.э.четырех типов: Tassinari D1110, Рондсен (Eggers 124 / Nuber D или Хагенау / Tassinari D2111a-c-2112), Tassinari D2120 и Стангеруп (Eggers 125 / Nuber E или Миллинген / Tassinari D2300), которые отличаются формой, пропорцией и размерами тулова, формой и декором ручек, -всего 14 сосудов.Отдельные атрибуции ойнохой, опубликованные до сих пор, были аргументированно пересмотрены в…
Bronze Basin from the Kurgan No. 1 of the Group “Bogomol’nye Peski I” in the Lower Volga Region
The article dwells on the find of the bronze basin in the burial no. 5 of the kurgan no. 1 of the group “Bogomol’nye peski I” near the village of Nikolskoye, Enotaevsky District, Astrakhan Region. A belt-set of gold with turquoise inlays found in the region of the pelvic bones of a 40–45-year-old warrior, an iron dagger in a wooden scabbard with round-shaped iron overlays covered with gold foil and with turquoise inlays, and other finds allowed t…
Double-Sided Glass Gems from the Burial no. 13 of the Kurgan no. 1 of the Group “Bogomol’nye Peski-I”
The article examines five double-sided glass gems found as elements of a bracelet on the left wrist of a child aged 2,5–3 years in the burial no. 13 of the kurgan no. 1 of the “Bogomol’nye peski-I” group near the village of Nikol’skoe, Enotaevskiy District, Astrakhan Region. The inventory of the burial gives grounds for its dating within a broad frame of the 1st – first half of the 2nd century AD. As in the Scythian burials of the Dnieper region,…
The Pectoral from Kosika and the Origin of the Scenes of Animal Combat in Graeco-Scythian Goldwork
This article concerns a gold pectoral found in burial No. 1/1984 in Kosika in the Lower Volga area. The destroyed burial was dated by us to the third quarter of the 1st century BC . Based on visual examination of the pectoral in 2015, an attempt is made to re-establish its history: to determine when it was created – no later than the first half of the 5th century BC – and when it was repaired and re-worked at the end of the 5th century or during …
Mediterranean and North Pontic Greek Imports in the Nomadic Burials of the Lower Volga Region and Foothills of South Urals of the 4th — First Third of the 3rd Century Bc
In the Archaic period, Mediterranean and Greek North Pontic imports, rather well represented in Early Scythian burials on the Lower Don, are practically unknown in the burials of the nomads in the Lower Volga and South Urals regions. The analysis of archaeological sources shows that in the second half of the 4th century BC imported beads and pendants made of glass, frit and amber reach the nomads of the Lower Volga and South Urals, and a little l…
Shells of Sea Molluscs From the Burials of the Nomads of Asian Sarmatia in the Context of Trade in Exotic Materials in Eurasia
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Gold Settings with Inlays from Kosika
The article dwells on the finds in the burial of the Sarmatian skeptuchos of the 1st century BC near Kosika on the Lower Volga of the gold settings, decorated using the cloisonné technique and with inlays of emeralds and glass of different colors. Three of them with inlays in the cloisonné technique, which find parallels among jewelry from the Artyukhov Burial-mound and Asia Minor, are probably dating back to the 2nd century BC, and could origina…
Chinese mirrors from the burials of the nomads of Eastern Europe of the second half of the 1st millennium BC-first centuries AD
The article is devoted to the Chinese mirrors found in the burials of the nomads of Asian Sarmatia. The typology and chronology of mirrors is presented, the earliest of which dates back to the period of the Warring States, but most of them, dating back to the 1st century BC – 2nd century AD. In the complexes of the second half of the 1st century BC – the first half of the 1st century AD the number of Chinese items in Asiatic Sarmatia is increasin…
Italic Bronze Statuette of the 5th — 3rd Centuries BC from the Late Sarmatian Burial in the Lower Don Area (on the Statuettes in the Burials of Eurasian Nomads of the First Centuries AD)
The article is devoted to the attribution of a bronze statuette of a naked man with a rounded object in a raised right hand, found in the Late Sarmatian female burial of Valovyy-I burial-ground, dating not earlier than the second half of the 2nd century AD, in the vicinity of ancient Tanais in the Lower Don region. This is the only reliable case I know of a find of a bronze figurine in the burials of the early nomads of Eurasia, in which imported…
Bronze Vessels from Mutin Necropolis Reconsidered (on the German Warriors on the Sejm River and German-Sarmatian Contacts on the Eve of the New Era)
The author attempts to attribute bronze vessels found on the late 1st century BC burial-ground near the village of Mutin on the right bank of the Sejm river in the north-east of the Ukraine. In particular, he offers a detailed discussion on the Beaucaire situla, belonging to a rare type of Late Republican vessels, distributed mainly in the south of France and northern Italy, which in the European Barbaricum, until now, was represented only by a f…
Bronze Vessels of the Late Republican Period From the Burials of Nomads of Asian Sarmatia
В статье рассматриваются редкие бронзовые сосуды последней четверти II -третьей четверти I в.до н.э.из погребений кочевников Азиатской Сарматии.К ним относятся черпаки с горизонтальными (типа Песчате) и вертикальными ручками, кружка типа Идрия, кувшин типа Галларате, сковороды типа Айлесфорд, некоторые типы тазов и асков, кратер (тип Eggers 94), всего чуть более десятка сосудов.Бронзовые сосуды позднереспубликанских типов преобладают в Нижнем Под…
Polyhedron Seals of the Transcaucasian Origin Dated 2nd – 1st CC BC from the Burials of the Nomads of Asian Sarmatia of the 1st – First Half of the 2nd Century AD
The article features the gem of rather rare forms, namely so-called prisms, polyhedra, scaraboids and bifacial gems which were found in the burials of the Asian Sarmatia nomads. The author describes an attempt to attribute seals in the form of polyhedra from Sarmatian burials dated back to the 1st – first half of the 2nd century AD within the Lower and Upper Don and the Lower Volga regions. Polyhedra belong to the forms of gems, which became wide…
Eggers 99-106 Roman Bronze Basins in Eastern Europe
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Inscribed Ceremonial Dagger from a Princely Sarmatian Burial near the Village of Kosika in the Lower Volga Region
The paper is devoted to the cross-guard of the fragmentary dagger found in 1984 in the princely nomad burial near the village of Kosika in the Lower Volga area, belonging to the type of ceremonial daggers which were widespread in Eurasia in the 1st century BC -1st century AD and which became one of the insignia of power as testified by the finds in the princely nomadic burials and depictions on the royal figures on the stelae from Commagene. The …
Parthian Imports in Asian Sarmatia (2nd-1st Centuries BC)
The paper dwells on the objects of Parthian origin (silver-gilt phalerae and gold- and silverware, glazed pottery) dated to the 2nd-early 1st centuries BC and found in the nomadic burials of Asian Sarmatia. It is noteworthy that a considerable part of them originate from the later, 1st century AD burials. Also remarkable are signs of deliberate damage on phalerae and one of the silver bowls, which probably testify to the fact that these artefacts…
A scaraboid from burial 1 of burial-mound 1/2015 of the Chebotarev V cemetery in the Lower Don area (about the Near Eastern seals in the nomadic burials of the Middle Sarmatian period)
"On a Vessel with Figured Friezes from a Private Collection, on Burials in Kosika and Once More on the "Ampsalakos School
The technique of gold inlaid decoration in the 5th-4th centuries BC
The present paper addresses silver and iron objects (iron sword awl, silver quiver hooks, and an iron knife with a silver handle) decorated with inlaid gold strips and plates. The artefacts were excavated recently in the barrows near the village of Filippovka, in the Southern Urals, and were dated to the 5th-4th centuries BC. Typological and stylistic analyses are complemented with the study of technological features of the objects. Analysis unde…
New Archaeological Data on Achaemenid Influences in the Southern Urals
Under the eastern outer edge of Burial-mound 1 in the Filippovka-1 cemetery near the edge of the mound a grave-pit was discovered which was untouched by looters. The grave goods in this female burial numbered approximately 1200 objects used for various purposes: they included objects from the Achaemenid range, which bear witness to the influences exerted by Achaemenid culture on the material and spiritual culture of the local nomads. This article…
New Discoveries of Sarmatian Complexes of the 1St Century a.D. a Survey of Publications in Vdi
A Hoard of Silver Rhyta of the Achaemenid Circle from Erebuni
This paper is devoted to a treasure found in 1968. The hoard in “a large jug”, consisting of three silver rhyta, a silver goblet and a fifth, now missing object, was found during construction works at the foothill of the Erebuni citadel. The silver vessels were preserved in a jug in a flattened condition. Every piece of the Treasure is discussed in detail. Descriptions of the vessels are provided in a catalogue section. The results of our analysi…
Two Hoards of Coins and Jewellery Items from the Time of the Roman-Bosporan War of AD 45–49 from the Site of Artezian
This article is the publication of two hoards found in 2009 during excavations of the fortified settlement of Artezian in the Eastern Crimea, which met its end at the very beginning of the Roman-Bosporan war of AD 45–49. The assemblages contain 244 bronze Bosporan coins from the end of the 1 st century BC to the first half of the 1 st century AD (Caesarea, Agrippia, Aspurgus, Gepaepyris, Mithridates VIII), 10 silver denarii of the Roman emperors …
Silver-gilt Bowl from Burial-mound B at Prokhorovka
The Date and Significance of Tomb II at Gorgippia (1975 Excavations)
Archaeological News From the Northern Pontic Region
This article gives a picture of developments in the Classical archaeology of the Northern Pontic region in the 1980's, surveying (Russian- and Ukrainian-language) literature, excavations and finds. The areas and sites covered include the Lower Dniester basin: Tyras, Nikonion, the Kosharskoye settlement, the island of Leuke; Olbia and its chora; Berezan (and its necropolis); the North-Western Crimea: Kalos Limen, Kerkinitis; the Western Crimea: Ch…
North Syrian Metalworkers in Archaic Greek Settlements
The Syrian origin of a casting mould for jewellery found at Al Mina leads to a discussion of similar moulds of the same origin, including examples from East Greek sites, and of the jewellery types produced. The presence of Syrian craftsman adds force to arguments for the importance of Syrian products and workmanship in Greek orientalising art
The Celts in the north Pontic area
The recent great exhibition in Venice of Celtic art and artefacts showed once again the intriguing attraction of the Celtic traditions, so influential in our view of old Europe, both western and central. But what about the Celts in the east, and specifically in the region to the north and west of the Black Sea? And what is the relation between that artefactual evidence, Celtic artefacts in the west, and the evidence from the documents
The Circular Matrix From the Robinson Collection
The bronze matrix, now in the collection of the Fogg Art Museum, is said to have been found in southern Thessaly close to Larissa Kremaste. As comparanda for the Scylla on the matrix the silver gilt plaque from the third century BC necropolis of Dyrrhachion in Illyria is discussed, as well as the matrix in the Antikensammlungen of Berlin and silver plaques decorating a belt from a late‐fourth‐century BC grave at Laos, Lucania. Discussing the Thet…
Archaeological News From the Northern Pontic Region
This article gives a picture of developments in the Classical archaeology of the Northern Pontic region in the 1980's, surveying (Russian- and Ukrainian-language) literature, excavations and finds. The areas and sites covered include the Lower Dniester basin: Tyras, Nikonion, the Kosharskoye settlement, the island of Leuke; Olbia and its chora; Berezan (and its necropolis); the North-Western Crimea: Kalos Limen, Kerkinitis; the Western Crimea: Ch…
A Gold Medallion Representing Fortuna and Glycon From the Necropolis of Chersonesus
A burial chamber on the western necropolis of Chersonesus yielded, among burial goods of the 2nd-3rd c. A.D., a stamped gold medallion depicting Fortuna and Glycon. The cult of Fortuna was widespread in the Roman Empire, especially after the Antonines, and finds of statuettes show it to have been popular on the N. Black Sea coast too. Images of Glycon, the human-headed snake of Alexander the ps.-Prophet, are uncommon outside Egypt, though are kno…
North Syrian Metalworkers in Archaic Greek Settlements
The Syrian origin of a casting mould for jewellery found at Al Mina leads to a discussion of similar moulds of the same origin, including examples from East Greek sites, and of the jewellery types produced. The presence of Syrian craftsman adds force to arguments for the importance of Syrian products and workmanship in Greek orientalising art
The Romans in Pantikapaion
A Fragment of an Attic Helmet From the Settlement At Lake Chokrak
A FRAGMENT OF AN ATTIC HELMET FROM THE SETTLEMENT AT LAKE CHOKRAK A.A. MASLENNIKOV and M.YU. TREISTER* During excavations of the ancient settlement at lake Chokrak a fragment of a bronze object worthy of special consideration was found. The settlement explored since 1986 is situated in the elevated central part of a long narrow promontory jutting out into lake Chokrak from the south.' Judging by the geo- logical sediments and results of measureme…
New Discoveries of Sarmatian Complexes of the 1St Century a.D. a Survey of Publications in Vdi
Two Golden Bracelets From Olbia in the Walters Art Gallery
The Date and Significance of Tomb II at Gorgippia (1975 Excavations)
Further Thoughts about Parthian and Related Belt and Belt Plaques
Polychrome Necklaces from the Late Hellenistic Period
POLYCHROME NECKLACES FROM THE LATE HELLENISTIC PERIOD (On the Question of the Origin of Necklaces with Butter fl y-shaped Pendants) 1 MIKHAIL YU. TREISTER I. Introduction. North-Pontic polychrome necklaces of the 1 st century AD Analysis of the structure and decorative motifs of necklaces with pendants in the shape of butter fl ies makes it possible to single out their characteristic features: (1) the main part of the necklace consisted of a chai…
Eastern Jewellery in Sarmatian Burials and Eastern Elements in the Jewellery Production of the North Pontic Area in the 1st. Century AD
Two Lead Plaques with a Depiction of a Danubian Horseman from the Collection of the National Museum of the History of the Ukraine
TWO LEAD PLAQUES WITH A DEPICTION OF A DANUBIAN HORSEMAN FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE HISTORY OF THE UKRAINE ∗ MIKHAIL YU. TREISTER, VITALII M. ZUBAR, LYUDMILA V. STROKOVA In July 2001 the collector Platonov presented some of the items in his collection to the National Museum of the Ukraine: among these were the two lead plaques which are the subject of this article. They belong to one and the same type of small rectangular r…
Cloisonné- and Champlevé-Decoration in the Gold Work of the Late Hellenistic-Early Imperial Periods
"On a Vessel with Figured Friezes from a Private Collection, on Burials in Kosika and Once More on the "Ampsalakos School
A Bronze Olpe from the Myrmekion Hoard
A bronze olpe in which a hoard of cyzicenes was found in 2003 in Myrmekion is discussed. The vessel belongs to a group of bi-conical bronze olpai singled out by Thomas Weber as Type III. B and should be dated to the first half, or possibly the second quarter, of the 5th century BC (the hoard in the olpe was hidden in the second quarter of the 4th century BC). Further the hoards of coins in bronze olpai and hoards of cyzicenes in bronze vessels ar…
Grave-Goods from a Rich Tomb in Gorgippia(?) Dating from the 2nd Century AD and Now in the Collection of the State Historical Museum (Moscow)
In 1982 The State Historical Museum acquired a set of a gold funeral wreath and three pair of earrings from the KGB. According to the given information the objects originated from the clandestine excavations in Anapa or its vicinities. The complex of jewellery discussed is chronologically close to the burial in the tomb II, excavated in 1975 in Gorgippia, which may be dated not later than the middle-third quarter of the 2nd century AD. The fact t…
The Toreutics of Colchis in the 5th-4th Centuries BC Local Traditions, Outside Influences, Innovations
Two silver vessels: a silver aryballos from the mid-5th century BC burial No. 11/1969 in Vani and a silver goblet from the ritual complex No. 1 of the Ulyap barrow No. 1 in the Kuban basin, dated to the late 5th-early 4th century BC, are discussed. e similarities in details of the vessels and their decoration with those of the silver vessels found in Lydia and the vicinity of Sinope are pointed out. A group of items of toreutics from the 5th-4th …
The technique of gold inlaid decoration in the 5th-4th centuries BC
The present paper addresses silver and iron objects (iron sword awl, silver quiver hooks, and an iron knife with a silver handle) decorated with inlaid gold strips and plates. The artefacts were excavated recently in the barrows near the village of Filippovka, in the Southern Urals, and were dated to the 5th-4th centuries BC. Typological and stylistic analyses are complemented with the study of technological features of the objects. Analysis unde…
A Bronze Jug from the Shverin Burial-Mound
© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2009 DOI: 10.1163/157005710X525165 Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia 15 (2009) 215-242 brill.nl/acss A Bronze Jug from the Shverin Burial-Mound * Mikhail Yu. Treister, Denis V. Zhuravlev ** Abstract The article is devoted to the publication and analysis of a fragmentary bronze jug found in 1872 during excavation of a barrow near Streletskaya Bay, on the estate of Colonel K. I. Shverin, the only known bu…
Silver Phialai from the Prokhorovka Burial-mound No. 1
Silver-gilt Bowl from Burial-mound B at Prokhorovka
Imported Bronze Vessels from the East Catacomb in the Berdyansk Barrow
This article consists of an analysis of an imported bronze vessel, found in the East Catacomb of the Berdyansk Barrow – a funerary monument of one of the Scythian nomarchs in the region north of the Sea of Azov. The wide range of cited parallels from Scythian sites and sites of other cultures makes it possible to assume that the oinochoe and the basin from the Berdyansk Barrow belonged to one and the same set of imported metal vessels. ‘Services’…
Silver Phalerae with a Depiction of Bellerophon and the Chimaira from a Sarmatian Burial in Volodarka (Western Kazakhkstan). A Reappraisal of the Question of the So-Called Graeco-Bactrian Style in Hel…
This article aims to publish unique specimens of Hellenistic toreutics – a pair of silver phalerae decorated with gilding and forming part of an horses’ harness, which was found during excavation of the Volodarka-I Burial-ground on the west bank of the River Ural in western Kazakhstan in 1981. A detailed analysis is provided of the subject depicted on the phalerae – fighting between Bellerophon seated on the winged horse Pegasos and the monster C…
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