Scythian Akinakes from Vatici (Moldova)

Ma tovább szemezgetek Denis Topal  barátom 2013. évi cikkéből és a Vatici (Moldovai Köztársaság) település mellett talált szkíta akinakész bemutatásával folytatom a sort. A 49 cm körüli, kétélű tőr színes fotói itt kerülnek először a magyar közönség számára bemutatásra. Köszönet érte!

Description of the artefact:
The total length of this akinakes was about 49 cm (the preserved length is 47,5cm). The cross section of the blade is rhombic, the edges are parallel having a median rib about 20 cm. The blade’s length probably was about 39 cm, the width varies from 4 cm (near the hafting plate) to 3,5 (in the middle). The hilt is triform, consisting from three shafts, and the central one is rhombic, the length from the pommel to thehafting plate is 8,5 cm, the width is 3 cm, the thickness is 1 cm. The dimensions of butterfly-like hafting plate are 7×4,8 cm, the dimensions of massive pommel are 5,5×2 cm. Under the pommel an iron bight was attached with outside diameter about 1 cm.

 A teljes cikket itt olvashatod/You can read the whole article here:

https://www.academia.edu/8878194/Akinakai_of_Kelermes_Type_New_Discoveries_in_Central_Bessarabia_in_English_

Kelermes Type Scythian Akinakes from Susleni (Moldova)

Egy jó barátom, Denis Topal cikkét ajánlom figyelmetekbe. A 2013. évi Marisia-ban megjelent "Akinakai of Kelermes Type: New Discoveries in Central and Northern Bessarabia" című tanulmányban a szerző a Moldovai Köztársaság területén napvilágra került ún. Kelermesz-típusú akinakészeket gyűjtötte csokorba. A fegyverek egyik legszebb darabja Susleni határából származik.

The article of my friend Denis Topal presents some new and previously unknown findings of akinakai from the territory of the Republic of Moldova (Vatici, Susleni, Lipnic). 

The first is from Susleni village. It is already the fourth akinakes reported from the Orhei district: the other three have been found in Vatici, Lukaševka (now Lucăşeuca) and Butuceni fortified settlement. 

It’s pommel is elongated, it’s handle is not triform, but has only two massive shafts on the edges. The form of hafting plate is heart-like, so the edges of plate are more rounded and facing down.

An original akinakes was found not far from the preservation of this exemplaris excellent (what is typical for the majority of Early Scythian akinakai).

The total length is 51 cm. The cross section of the blade is also rhomboid, the edges are parallel and the blade has also the median rib which occupies about two thirds ofthe length (25 cm). The length of the blade is 38cm, the width varies from 3,7 to 3,8 cm. The hilt’s length is 8 cm (from the pommel to the haftingplate), the width is 2,7 cm, the thickness of shaftsis about 1 cm. The dimensions of hafting plateare 6,5×3,9 cm and the pommel is 7×1,5 cm (thickness is 1,2 cm). Under the pommel an iron girdle with the bight is attached (diameter is 0,8 cm, the thickness is 0,5 cm).

A sort a Vatici és a Lipnic-i akinakész követi...

You can read the whole article here:

https://www.academia.edu/8878194/Akinakai_of_Kelermes_Type_New_Discoveries_in_Central_Bessarabia_in_English_

http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susleni,_Orhei

A newly discovered dagger-knife from Dumbrava (Romania).

Október a szkíta "akinakészek" hava a szkíta régészet blogon. Ezúttal egy újabb, 2012 nyarán napvilágra került emléket mutatok be, Erdélyből, a Maros mentéről. Az egyélű harci kés több szempontból is egyedülálló: ez a Kárpát-medence területén ma ismert legépebben fennmaradt darab, s a legkeletebbi képviselője a csoport névadó lelőhelye nyomán Tiszadob-típusnak keresztelt egyélű akinakészeknek. Gratulálok az "adományozó kedvű" felfedezőnek és a szerzőknek, akik a leletet példamutató gyorsasággal közzétették.

In the summer of 2012 Mr. Iuliu Cristinel Pop donated to the Mureş County Museum (Romania) an iron dagger, which was discovered in 22nd of July 2012, during a filed survey and investigation with a metal detector. On the exact find spot of the artefact a small field research has been carried out by the staf of the Museum. Unfortunately no other archaeological material could be identified.

The dagger-knife of akinakes type, is a well known example of the Scythian culture, and based on similar artefacts from Romania and from the Carpathian Basin it can be dated to the end of the 6th beginning of the 5th cent. BC. Thank to the very good state of preservation, and due to the very explicit formal characteristics the weapon from Dumbrava becomes the best and the most eastern representation of the dagger-knives with one cutting edge of the Tiszadob variant from the eastern edge of the Carpathian Basin.

Description of the artefact:

An iron akinakes-dagger with a slightly curved blade, which narrows gradually towards the tip; it has a single cutting edge and a triangular cross section. The guard is composed of two heart shaped iron plates, which were handmade separately and fitted through hammering on to the blade. The two lobes which make up the guard have equal dimensions and are uniform, having a slightly oval shape. The handle is lenticular in cross section, narrowing very slightly towards the upper end. It ends in a straight and perpendicular bar, which has a bipedal axe shaped form, having a lenticular cross section. The handle has on each of its sides a narrow and longitudinal groove, which slides under the guard and under the perpendicular bar as well. The horizontal ribbings are dispersed uniformly on the entire handle, having around 1–2 mm between each other. The blade and the handle were manufactured from a single piece of wrought iron, the guard and the bar being added at the end. The blade was sharpened in prehistory, having obvious traces of use and wear. 

It is made of wrought iron.

Dimensions:

total length: 42.3 cm;

handle length: 10.8 cm;

blade length: 27.1 cm;

guard max. width: 5 cm; guard min. width: 4.6 cm;

handle width inf: 1.1 cm; handle width sup: 1.6 cm;

bar length: 6.1 cm; bar width: 1.3 cm;

handle thickness: 0.8 cm;

guard thickness: 0.5 cm;

blade thickness: 0.6 cm.

weight: 289.5 g.

For further reading:
https://www.academia.edu/8852802/A_newly_discovered_dagger-knife_from_Dumbrava

http://salveazaistoria.wordpress.com/2012/09/06/mica-asezare-a-colonistilor-romani-din-limesul-nord-estic-al-daciei-romane/#jp-carousel-1917

Szkíta konferencia Kassán

Hölgyeim és Uraim, Barátok és Kollégák!

A 2014. december 10-12. között Kassán megrendezésre kerülő "Das nördliche Karpatenbecken in der Hallstattzeit" konferencián az alábbi előadásokat hallgathatjuk meg:

VORTRÄGE (vorläufiges Programm, Stand 6.10.2014)

10.12. – 12.12.2014

Mittwoch 10.12.2014, 9 – 13 Uhr 

ERÖFFNUNG

(Universität Košice, Archäologisches Institut der SAW Nitra, Slowakische archäologische 

Gesellschaft, Universität Mainz) 

Gerhard Tomedi

Zu Sozialstrukturen der Hallstattzeit im Ostalpenraum.

Elena Miroššayová 

Die Ostslowakei in der Hallstattzeit.

Lucia Benedikova 

Kulturkontakte des slowakischen Teils der Westkarpaten während der Hallstattzeit.

Susanne Stegmann-Rajtár 

 Zur Abfolge der Osthallstatt- und Vekerzug-Kultur in der Südwestslowakei.

Mittwoch 10.12.2014, 15 – 18 Uhr

Christoph Huth 

Sopron – Nové Košariska – Frög. Überlegungen zum Quellenwert früheisenzeitlicher

Grabbeigaben.

Sabine Pabst 

Italische Einflüsse im hallstattzeitlichen Spiral- und Scheibenfibelhandwerk des

Ostalpenraumes.

Petra Kmeťová 

Horse Burials in the East-Alpine Hallstatt Region.

Biba Teržan

Zum Beginn der frühen Eisenzeit imSüdostalpenraum – neue Radiocarbon-Daten.

Mittwoch 10.12.2014, 19,30 Uhr - Abendvortrag

Christopher Pare – Florian Miketta

Neue Fragen zu den ältesten Eisenfunden in Mittel- und Südeuropa.

Donnerstag 11.12.2014, 9 – 13 Uhr

Louis Daniel Nebelsick 

Die Bestattungsgemeinschaft von Loretto „Ochsenstand“ als Spiegel sozialer und

ideologischer Umbrüche.

Daniel Schäfer 

Neue Forschungen zu den hallstattzeitlichen Gräbern der Kleßheimer Allee aus Salzburg-
Maxglan.

Katalin Groma 

Skeletal graves in the Early Iron Age cremational cemetery of Süttö.

Mária Fekete – Géza Szabó

Ein orientalisches Bronzegefäßtyp aus der Hallstattkultur: Die Ziste. Gedanken während der

Bearbeitung des Tumulus von Regöly (Komitat Tolna, Südungarn).

Florian Miketta 

Der Beginn der Eisenmetallurgie in Mitteleuropa unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des

nördlichen Karpatenbeckens.

Donnerstag 11.12.2014, 15 – 20 Uhr

Peter Barta – Petra Kmeťová – Susanne Stegmann-Rajtár – Etela Studeníková

Chronometric dates from Early Iron Age settlements in Smolenice-Molpír and Ivanka pri

Dunaji.

Ursula Brosseder – Susanne Stegmann-Rajtár 

Studien zur hallstattzeitlichen Keramik von Smolenice-Molpír.

Miloš Gregor 

Early Iron Age potery from Molpír (Western Slovakia): mineralogical and petrographical

study.

Anja Hellmuth 

Die Beziehungen des frühskythischen Kulturkreises im Nordpontischen Raum zu der

befestigten Siedlung von Smolenice-Molpír im Osthallstattkreis

Radoslav Čambal 

Hallstattzeitliche Hortfunde von Smolenice-Molpír.

Sebastian Müller 

Überlegungen zur hallstattzeitlichen Besiedlung und Sozialstruktur in der Südwestslowakei.

Freitag 12.12.2014, 9 – 13 Uhr

Martin Trefný 

Eastern elements of the Hallstatt culture at Bohemia.

Carola Metzner-Nebelsick 

Prunkgeschirr und Tierprotomen – Neues zur Hallstattzeit Südostpannoniens.

Attila Molnár 

Neue Ergebnisse der Hallstattforschung in Westungarn – Die Späthallstattzeit im Raab-
Marcal-Becken.

Anita Kozubová 

Kopfschmuck der Vekerzug-Kultur.

Robert Gergely Scholtz 

"Amazons beyond the Danube“ – Forgotten Women Warriors of the Vekerzug Culture.

Farkas Márton Tóth 

A Cemetery of the Early Scythian Age in Dédestapolcsány – Verebce-tető.

Freitag 12.12.2014, 15 – 17 Uhr - Stadtbesichtigung mit Führung 

 Lucia Benedikova - Elena Miroššayová 

Hallstattzeitliche eiserne Tüllenbeile in der Slowakei. (POSTER)

Éva Durkovičová 

Györ-Ménföcsanak, a lowland settlement in the Early Iron Age. (POSTER)

Martin Golec - Pavel Fojtík - Eva Čermáková 

The Vekerzug Culture in Moravia. (POSTER)

Katarína Hladíková 

Perception of Children in Early Iron Age in Southern Etruria. (POSTER)

Vladimír Mitáš 

Der slowakische Bereich des Ipeľ-Flusses während der Hallstattzeit. (POSTER)