Shoe buckles
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4085
Updated:
09.12.2024
Name:
Shoe buckles
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Date:
V-VI century AD
Type:
Metal products
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Circumstances:
Аppropriated by representatives of the russian federation during illegal excavations of cultural heritage sites of Ukraine
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Details of theft
Year of the incident:
2024
Place of the incident:
Object of archeology "Grave field of Almalik-dere"
Coordinates (Lat, Lon):
44.59786590935672, 33.8176057079233
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Description of the incident location
The Almalik Dere burial site on the Mangup Plateau is the largest early medieval necropolis in the region. It is located 13 km east of Sevastopol (ancient Chersonesos). A group of archaeologists from the russian Academy of Sciences, together with Valery Naumenko, an archaeologist from the Vernadsky Crimean Federal University, conducted illegal excavations in the Almalik Dere necropolis near Sevastopol and appropriated gold and silver women's jewelry from the V-VI centuries. The 6th-century Byzantine historian Procopius of Caesarea wrote that the Mangupa region was part of the Christian principality of Gothia at the time, which was founded in southwestern Crimea by the Goths, who refused to follow Theodoric the Great during his invasion of Italy in 488. The new valuable finds come from two crypts dating from the period between the fourth and sixth centuries. Among them were brooches, gold earrings, belt set elements (rivets) and shoe buckles, as well as sheet gold applications that could have decorated the neckline of a dress. The further fate of the artifacts seized during the illegal excavations of the necropolis is unknown.
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