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BALEY: New Discoveries: Балей: нови открития
No full textThe village of Baley, NW Bulgaria, is located on the Timok river, 3 km away from the Danube river. Rumen Katincharov (NAIM-BAS) and Anna Iotsova (RIM-Vidin) excavated a prehistoric settlement with remnants of the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age between early 70's and the end of the 80's. In 2009 construction activities in a private property revealed fragments of ceramics. Those were carefully collected and 10 pots and a piece of clay anthropomorphic figurine - the subject of this message - have been restored. The ten vessels and the anthropomorphic statuette are classified into 4 groups depending on their shape and decoration (or lack thereof).
After examining the analogies of ceramics, it can be assumed that the Baley cemetery presents chronologically a long period (covering the development of at least three ceramic styles) of the Late Bronze Age and the transition to the Early Iron Age (from the middle of 2 millennium BC to its end). Findings from these three chronological stages occur in the area of the Iron Gates of the Danube
Проблеми на охраната и използването на паметниците на културата за туристически цели: Problems of preservation and utilisation of cultural monuments for touristic purposes
No full textЕтнографски и археологически дикани: трансрегионална перспектива: Ethnographic and archaeological tribula: transregional perspective
No full textThe paper presents an important evidence of ethnographic tribula from the south-eastern Balkans, which inserts are commented as a referential corpus to a series of archaeological tribulum inserts identified by the author and coming from a Late Chalcolithic site in Bulgarian Thrace. Archaeological tribulum inserts from Bulgaria can be recognized because of their striking similarity to ethnographic examples in morphology and shape, and especially in microscopic wear features.
The paper also presents the results of a micro-wear analysis, made by the author, of a series of Canaanean blades assemblages from different areas in Israel (from the Negev to the North Mediterranean zone and Galilee). The study aimed to verify the concept of Canaanean blades used as tribulum and not as sickle inserts. Ultimately, the results have been tested in resolving one of the crucial problems in the theoretical background of use-wear studies: that of the establishment of reliable patterns for distinguishing the micro-wear characteristics (polishes and accompanied striations) of sickle and tribulum inserts
Ранни гръцки импорти от района на Попово: Early Greek Imports from Popovo region
No full textThe artefacts presented here are ‘stray’ finds, as looters’ finds are usually referred to in Bulgaria. Due to their good preservation, they are valuable evidence for the cultural and economic contacts of their place of origin and belong to a relatively early period – the second/third quarter of the 5th century BC.
The amphora is entirely preserved and is 55.5 cm high, with a maximum body diameter of 29.5 cm and a rim diameter of 10.8 cm. It is made of brick-red brown clay mixed with sand and white calcareous particles. In recent investigations, these amphorae are associated with the production of the North-Aegean zone or Propontis and are found in closed complexes along the North Black Sea coast dating to the second/third quarter of the 5th century BC. The only so far (?) known parallel from the Thracian hinterland is a fragment from the upper part of an amphorae found in the rich burial from Svetlen (former Aazhljar) in Popovo district, dated to the end of the 5th century BC. The fact that the amphora is completely preserved suggests that it is a part of an inventory of a grave with a stable (stone?) construction. The amphora was donated to the Popovo museum and recorded as deriving from the area around Popovo.
The lekythos is almost entirely preserved. Only a small fragment from the base of the neck is missing. It is made of fine beige clay with an orange nuance. The surface is covered with a fine slip (engobe) of the same clay. There are some traces of white paint on the body, that is over-painted with several bands of black-glazed geometric and plant ornaments. The base is entirely covered with black glaze. The rim and the outer side of the handle are also covered in black glaze that is thicker and has a metallic lustre. The lekythos is 19.2 cm high, with a maximum body diameter of 6.5 cm, a rim diameter of 3.96 cm and a basal diameter of 5.2 cm.
The lekythos belongs to the well-known group of Attic lekythoi with black-glazed decoration over a white background from the 5th century BC (Attic White Lekythoi). According to its shape, it belongs to type ІІ (Shoulder) and, according to its decoration, to the group of Pattern Lekythoi from the production of the Beldam Painter or his workshop, dated to the second and third quarter of the 5th century BC. These lekythoi are common for the necropoles of the Greek colonies and their hinterland along the North, East and West coast of the Black Sea and are dated to the third quarter of the 5th century BC. The excellent condition of the lekythos suggests that, like the amphora, it was a part of an inventory of a rich grave from the region of Popovo