169DEUX APPLIQUES DE SELLE POST-HUNNIQUEPROVENANT DE JALPUG (DELTA DU DANUBE) :PARALLELES ET DATATION
Journal: HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)
Year: 2018

This study is devoted to saddle plates discovered in Jalpug, near the mouthof the Danube. The examination of their parallels and their dating shows thatJalpug's saddle plates belong to an oriental type, existing exclusively in EasternEurope (Volga, Urals, North Caucasus, Crimea), above all in the nomadic steppes,from the middle of the 5th century. The richness of the tomb and the high quality ofthe work show that these items imply a "princely" rank and they were probablyproduced in Byzantine wor