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Sarmatian belt – buckles, ornaments

Scythian / Sarmatian buckles with a frame

Komsomolsky settlement [пос. Комсомольский], burial No. 1. Gold and turquoise
Astrakhan Museum, inv. No. 42447
Photo source https://astrakhan.su
After M. Treister

Golden buckle with blue glass paste inserts. Based of position of the finds – a belt clasp.
Length 4.8 cm. The first half of the 2nd century CE.
Burial site of Sarmatian nobility, the Volgograd Don region. From a burial of a 50-60-year-old man.

Burial of Sarmatian nobility from the Volgograd Don region

Scythian / Sarmatian buckles with the frame and Hercules Knot

Ust-Alma Necropolis, Crimea, 1st century

Усть-Альминский могильник, склеп № 620/1996,
погребение № 2. Бахчисарай, БГИКЗ, инв. КП 9106/з-470 [M. Treister]

North Caucasus, purchased in 2003. Labeled as Parthian, dated 2nd/3rd century. Gold and hessonite, 2,4х1,5 cm
Hermitage КЗ-7784

“A gold buckle of unknown origin of a similar shape with a central part in the form of a stylized “knot of Hercules”, with round and oval caskets with garnet inserts on the frame and side hook, originating from a destroyed burial in the North Caucasus, was received in 2003 by the collection of the State Hermitage Museum and published as Parthian, late 2nd – early 3rd century AD.” [M. Treister]

Kuban region, Kazanskaya station, 1st-3rd century. Gold and glass, length: 2.2 cm
State Historical Museum Moscow, inv. no. GIM 42381/294

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