DOI Artikel:
Chochorowski, Jan: Rings with panticapaeum staters from the Great Ryzhanovka Barrow
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left on the ear and the Greek letters I1AN (photo 1). Both coins were
adapted for their new function in a similar way: by soldering pieces of
a narrow gold strip to the edge, from the reverse side, forming a type of
closed band. The best preserved of these rings (weight - 10.251, coin
diameter - 21 mm), 6 has a fracture on one side of the band. In this case
the soldering is slanted to the axis on the obverse. 7 Obvious wear through
usage on the surface of the coins is \isible at the bases of the band, i.e.
behind the Satyr's head and in the vicinity of his beard.
With the larger ring (weight - 11.520 gm, diameter 19/20 mm),8
the initial soldering to the edge of the band was broken, while the places
of the breakage have been quite carefully obliterated. Next, the new
band was soldered in such a way that its ends touch the middle of the
coin's reverse. When it broke, the next one was soldered on, which still
retains the band, providing bases for the planishing of the former re-
mains. As an effect of these - technically primitive - steps, the surface of
the coin became strongly hammered and misshapen. Additionally, at
the bases of the ring, this time situated transversely to the axis of the
images on the obverse and reverse, the surface and edge of the coin
have strong traces of erasure through usage. The band itself, and actu-
ally the last - the third version, is weakly erased through usage.
The staters from the Ryzhanovka rings have been classified9 to Series
IV, assigned by D. B. Shelov and dated by him to the years 330-315 BC.10
On this basis the 'collateral', female grave of the Great Ryzhanovka Bar-
row was counted among the youngest of the Scythian 'royal' barrows, asso-
ciated with the years 330-300 BC.11 According to A. Yu, Alekseev,12 the
6 For the information concerning the weight of rings held in the collection of the
Archaeological Museum in Cracow I am most grateful to Ms Bożena Reyman-Walczak MA.
7 The axes presenting the head of a Satyr on the obverse and a griffin on the reverse
are not in line, while the band is soldered vertically to the representation of the griffin.
8 The initial diameter of the coin was rather 19 mm. The distortion in its shape is, more
than likely, the result of secondary hammering.
9 Mielczarek, Gold Panticapaean, p. 102.
10 D. B. Shelov, Monetnoe delo Bospora VT-II w. do n. e., Moskva 1956, pp. 93 and 214.
11 A. Yu. Aleksów, Skifskaya khronika, Sankt-Peterburg 1992, pp. 156-157. This circle
represents, according to Alekseev, the following barrows: Aleksandropolskij, Krasnokutskij,
Oguz (younger ensemble), Deev (secondary graye), Lemeshev (?), Denisova Mogiła, Verch-
nii Rogachik (secondary grave), Zheltokamenka (secondary grave), Babina Mogiła, Ka-
menskaya Bliznitsa.
12 Alekseev, Skifskaya, pp. 154-155.
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adapted for their new function in a similar way: by soldering pieces of
a narrow gold strip to the edge, from the reverse side, forming a type of
closed band. The best preserved of these rings (weight - 10.251, coin
diameter - 21 mm), 6 has a fracture on one side of the band. In this case
the soldering is slanted to the axis on the obverse. 7 Obvious wear through
usage on the surface of the coins is \isible at the bases of the band, i.e.
behind the Satyr's head and in the vicinity of his beard.
With the larger ring (weight - 11.520 gm, diameter 19/20 mm),8
the initial soldering to the edge of the band was broken, while the places
of the breakage have been quite carefully obliterated. Next, the new
band was soldered in such a way that its ends touch the middle of the
coin's reverse. When it broke, the next one was soldered on, which still
retains the band, providing bases for the planishing of the former re-
mains. As an effect of these - technically primitive - steps, the surface of
the coin became strongly hammered and misshapen. Additionally, at
the bases of the ring, this time situated transversely to the axis of the
images on the obverse and reverse, the surface and edge of the coin
have strong traces of erasure through usage. The band itself, and actu-
ally the last - the third version, is weakly erased through usage.
The staters from the Ryzhanovka rings have been classified9 to Series
IV, assigned by D. B. Shelov and dated by him to the years 330-315 BC.10
On this basis the 'collateral', female grave of the Great Ryzhanovka Bar-
row was counted among the youngest of the Scythian 'royal' barrows, asso-
ciated with the years 330-300 BC.11 According to A. Yu, Alekseev,12 the
6 For the information concerning the weight of rings held in the collection of the
Archaeological Museum in Cracow I am most grateful to Ms Bożena Reyman-Walczak MA.
7 The axes presenting the head of a Satyr on the obverse and a griffin on the reverse
are not in line, while the band is soldered vertically to the representation of the griffin.
8 The initial diameter of the coin was rather 19 mm. The distortion in its shape is, more
than likely, the result of secondary hammering.
9 Mielczarek, Gold Panticapaean, p. 102.
10 D. B. Shelov, Monetnoe delo Bospora VT-II w. do n. e., Moskva 1956, pp. 93 and 214.
11 A. Yu. Aleksów, Skifskaya khronika, Sankt-Peterburg 1992, pp. 156-157. This circle
represents, according to Alekseev, the following barrows: Aleksandropolskij, Krasnokutskij,
Oguz (younger ensemble), Deev (secondary graye), Lemeshev (?), Denisova Mogiła, Verch-
nii Rogachik (secondary grave), Zheltokamenka (secondary grave), Babina Mogiła, Ka-
menskaya Bliznitsa.
12 Alekseev, Skifskaya, pp. 154-155.
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