A ROMAN REPUBLICAN OPENWORK BELT PLATE FROM A SANCTUARY GURZUFSKOE SEDLO: THE PARALLELS TO CASTILLEJO FINDS

• Main Author: Maria V Novichenkova
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Mega Publishing House 2020-07-01
• Series: Journal of Ancient History and Archaeology
• Subjects: roman republican and late la téne equipment, military suite, belt plate, mountain sanctuary, armour votive offerings, 2nd – 1st centuries bc, mountain taurica, sanctuary gurzufskoe sedlo, tauri population.
• Online Access: http://jaha.org.ro/index.php/JAHA/article/view/529
• ISSN: 2360-266X

<p>A paper is devoted to a rare find of a Roman bronze openwork belt plate with the preserved skin residues found in a mountain sanctuary Gurzufskoe Sedlo together with the items of the Roman military equipment principally dated by the Late Republican – Early Principate periods. It’s finding in a barbarian sanctuary along with the items of Roman Republican equipment is associated with the participation of <em>Tauri </em>tribes in the military actions against Rome in the Black Sea region during the first half of a 1^st century BC. It is possible to study the features of the construction and decor elements of an item due to a good state of its preserve.</p>