BURIAL OF A SCYTHIAN WARRIOR FROM THE KULAKOVSKY BARROW
The Kulakovsky barrow is one of four barrows studied by Yu. A. Kulakovsky in 1895 northwest of the modern village of Dolinnoe, not far from Simferopol. All the barrows date from the Bronze Age and contain intrusive burials of the Scythian, Late Scythian and Medieval periods. A burial of a Scythian warrior was found in barrow 2. The accompanying inventory consisted of two bronze plaques in the form of coiled predators, a small bronze axe, an iron sword, an iron spearhead, bronze and bone arrowheads, and a whetstone. The bronze plaques served to decorate horse bridles, they belong to the number of masterpieces of the Greek-Scythian art. The weapons date the burial to the last third/quarter of the VI - the frst third/ quarter of the V c. BC.