Touch the ancient world – own a piece of history – but remember it belongs to all humanity
Touch the ancient world – own a piece of history – but remember it belongs to all humanity
$300.00
Cast bronze with tin-enrichment of the surface during the course of casting. Flat disk with a pronounced ridge around the perimeter and side handle with an opening for suspension. In the middle there is an encrypted symbol in relief. Fragment missing (ancient loss). D. 2.6″ (6.6 cm), H. 2.4″ (6.2 cm).
According to some written sources, such as Pliny and Ammianus Marcellinus, some tribes, including Sarmatian, were using encrypted signs in tattoos as heraldry to underline social status. Plin, N. H., XXII, 2; Amm. Marc., XXXI, 17. Sarmatian signs contain ideas of right of ownership of the tribe, kin or individual. See: S.V.Drachuk. Pro tsar’ski znaki Bospora Kimmeriyskogo. Arheologiya, XXII, Kiev, 1969. E. I. Solomonik. Sarmatskiye znaki Severnogo Prichernomor’ya, Kiev, 1959.