Феномен использования латуни для изготовления украшений в среде варварского населения Таврики римского времени

Российские нанотехнологии. 2022. Т. 17. № 5. С. 631–641.

Смекалова Т. Н., Антипенко А. В., Лысенко А. В., Mordvintseva V., Деваев А. С., Леонов Л. Л., Гаврилюк А. Н., Жильцов Г. С.

The fact of the beginning of the mass use of brass in the production of jewellery and costume accessories among the local population of the Crimea in the first centuries AD is revealed. Brass objects found in the barbarian cemeteries of Southwestern, Central, Eastern and Southern Taurica of the 2nd c. BC–IV c. AD, make up from 20 to 60% of the total number of investigated metal objects. This conclusion was made based on the study of a statistically significant sample of about 1000 subjects. Brass entered Taurica mainly through Tauric Chersonese and the Bosporan kingdom, practically only as Roman coins or coin alloy, as well as items of Roman military ammunition. The obtained data on the composition of the jewellery alloy were compared with the results of the analysis of the alloys of Roman, Chersonesean and Bosporan coins of the first centuries AD. This suggested that the most likely material for the manufacture of barbarian brass jewellery could be Roman and Bosporan coins, which did not circulate among the tribes of Taurica, and were melted down as scrap along with other brass and bronze objects.

Keywords: Крым, Crimea, латунь, Late Scythian culture, позднескифская культура, metal analysis, Roman coins, local jewellery, brass alloy, анализ металла, римские монеты, местные украшения