Sputnik Абхазия

SUKHUM, 5 Feb - Sputnik, Sariya Kvaratskhelia. The burial ground with jewelry found in Achandar is one of the richest burials on the entire East coast of the Black Sea, director of the Abkhaz State Museum Arkady Dzhopua told Sputnik, commenting on the find of a resident of the village Rustam Chkhebelia.

"A total of nine gold jewelry, a bronze helmet, arrowheads, spears, a silver bowl with drawings of the oriental style, two daggers such as akinak dagger (short iron sword of the Scythians - ed.), Also clips for jewelry," said the director of the State Museum of Abkhazia Arkady Dzhopua.

The found jewelry dates back to an earlier period than those found by Abkhaz archaeologists during excavations in the early 2000s in the village of Achandara.

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"We have not met any analogs of these earrings before. Most likely, these are not the work of our craftsmen. We need to study them in more detail. Now it is difficult for me to say anything about them. But the bronze helmet, for example, I assume that it is not local. production, rather imported, "- he commented.

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A human skeleton, a bronze helmet, arrowheads, spears and ornaments were found by a local resident Rustam Chkhebelia in the village of Achandara, Gudauta region on January 31.

The things that were found by Rustam Chkhebelia, a resident of Achandara, date back to around the 4th-5th century BC.

As the director of the Abkhaz State Museum, archaeologist Arkady Jopua noted, this is one of the richest burials not only in Abkhazia, but also on the Eastern coast of the Black Sea.

"In quantitative terms, there are not many jewelry. You can see from the photograph that nine gold items have been laid out. A golden neck ring, this type of earlier, bronze ones, we have already found. We have already found bronze rings of this kind. But they are no less valuable," he explained. he

Gold earrings were also found at the burial site, but the archaeologist cannot yet say for sure. Presumably, they are not made locally.