Новые данные об аланах в Юго-Западном Крыму (по материалам некрополя Карши-Баир)

Abstract

Статья посвящена двум недавно открытым погребальным комплексам могильника Карши-Баир в Юго-Западном Крыму. Этот некрополь расположен на левом берегу реки Бельбек, в одном километре к юго-востоку от железнодорожной станции Верхнесадовая, в северо-восточной части безымянной долины, находящейся в межгорье отрогов плато Мекензиевых гор, носящих тюркские названия Кымыр-Кая, Кая-Баш, Узун-Сырт, Баш-Кая, Карши-Баир.

Protective excavations of the necropolis Karshi-Bair in 1998-2000 produced varied archаeological material which gives an opportunity to reconstruct several episodes of the ethnic history of this area. The article is devoted to two additional burials in the cells of vault 1 (Karshi-Bair I) and vault 10 (Karshi-Bair II). Both are female burials with similar material (strings of beads, pendants, a mirror with central eye, buckles, a two-plate fibula – vault 1). The additional burials, which were oriented differently from the earlier ones and had characteristic mirrors in the studied vaults, may be an evidence of the new surge of migration of the Alans. On their way from Northern Caucasia, they got in South-Western Crimea in the 5th-6th centuries, where a part of them settled among kindred tribes.