About Metal Rings of the “Zubovsky-Vozdvizhenskaya Type” Adorned with Sculptured Anthropomorphic and Zoomorphic Images
Journal: Nizhnevolzhskiy Arheologicheskiy Vestnik
Year: 2019

Metallic rings with sculpture images of anthropomorphic and zoomorphic types are known from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries amongst findings in Sarmatian burials of “Golden Cemetery” burial ground in the region of the Kuban river. These days they present a distinctive feature of the material culture of the Zubovsky-Vozdvizhenskaya group sites. Some analogous artifacts were found in mounds of the Volga river and Don river regions. There is no single definition for the functional use of su