title: The Bronze Horse Bit from the Central Burial Chamber of the Kurgan Arzhan-1
metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Horvath, Veronika
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2018-12-27T15:23:48Z
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2018-12-27T15:23:48Z
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2018-12
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Horvath V. The Bronze Horse Bit from the Central Burial Chamber of the Kurgan Arzhan- 1. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2018, vol. 63, issue 4, рp. 1221–1237.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.identifier.other
metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu02.2018.413
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.uri
metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/15215
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The Arzhan-1 kurgan plays a very important role in the research regarding the early Scythian
  age in Inner Asia and Kazakhstan. To begin with, it is one of the earliest monument to
  demonstrate the developed Scythian Triad. In the article, the authors will be examining the
  unusually structured bronze horse — bit found in the central chamber of the kurgan. The external
  ring of one of the parts of this bit seems to be of an elongated stirrup shape with signs of a
  supplementary hole. A thorough examination of the object has revealed that the two pieces of
  the bit are completely different from each other, not only in form but as regards their chemical
  composition as well. The part with rectangular relief designs in two or more rows along one
  side of the mouthpiece, is similar to the sets of horse trappings of the classical Novocherkassk
  type and early Zhabotin period in Eastern Europe dating from the end of 8th — the first half
  of 7th c. BC. Bronze horse bits with the “pawn shaped” external ring known from Tuva and the
  mountainous and foothill regions of Altai, at first sight seem similar to the presented form, but
  were found in the so-called Y-shaped side-structures. When studying their structural characteristics,
  experts determined that this type of bit and side structure is presumably an imitation
  of the structure of the inflexible horse-bits. Taking into account all the examined data, the location
  of the bit within the tomb and the circumstances of the kurgan’s excavation, it becomes
  obvious that the system of relationships characteristic of the Tuva region, the neighboring and
  further areas in the Scythian Age had begun to develop already in the Arzhan Era.
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metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: The author of the article would like to express her gratitude to the director of the Aldan-Maadyr,
  National Museum of the Republic of Tyva, Bicheldej Kadir-ool Alekseevich; to Mongush Laida Kara-oolovna,
  the museum’s deputy director; to Khovalig Rolanda Biche-oolovna, the museum’s chief curator, and to
  Ayanmaa Ondar Valerievna, a colleague from the archaeological collection of the museum for the opportunity
  to study the Arzhan-1 kurgan finds and to prepare a publication.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 63; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Arzhan-1
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: mouth-pieces of the classical Novocherkassk type
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: early Zhabotin
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Tuva
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Altai
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Eastern Aral area
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The Bronze Horse Bit from the Central Burial Chamber of the Kurgan Arzhan-1
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.type
metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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