Encolpion Crosses from Finds at the Vodyanskoe Settlement
Journal: Nizhnevolzhskiy Arheologicheskiy Vestnik
Year: 2023

The subject of the study is the bronze encolpion crosses found at the Vodyanskoe settlement, an urban culture monument of the Golden Horde era. Material and spiritual culture of the Russian Golden Horde urban population of the 14th century is the object under study of this paper. The author analyzes personal godliness practice items of the Russian cult copper sculpture connected with spread of Christianity. The encolpions under study and their fragments were found during archaeological excavatio