- M. Treister, The 1st Century AD Bosporan (?) Buckles made of Precious Metals in the Bosporan Kingdom and in Sarmatia https://www.academia.edu/43932605/M_Treister_The_1st_Century_AD_Bosporan_Buckles_made_of_Precious_Metals_in_the_Bosporan_Kingdom_and_in_Sarmatia_in_Russian_with_summary_in_English_
Scythian / Sarmatian buckles with a frame

Astrakhan Museum, inv. No. 42447
Photo source https://astrakhan.su


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.
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]

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]

State Historical Museum Moscow, inv. no. GIM 42381/294












