Accession No
1927.1190 I.20
Description
Fragment of round metal, possibly a mirror. Flat with one rounded edge with bevelled outer rim; both sides have patina, the upper surface has a shiny surface and trace of tin.
Place
Europe; Eastern Europe; Russia; Caucasus; North Ossetia; Koban; Saniba
Period
Migration Period
Source
Ridgeway, William (Professor; Sir) [collector and bequeather]; Baddeley, John [collector]
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
1927.1190 I.20
Cultural Affliation
Material
Metal; Copper Alloy; ?Bronze; Tin
Local Term
Measurements
49mm
Events
Context (Related Documents)
Handwritten note with objects reads: 'Ridgeway Bequest. 27.1190. c. AD 1.'
Event Date
Author: Clare McKenna
Description (Physical description)
Group of objects from graves: I: Box of bronze mounts, balls, clips and rings (plain).
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn
Context (Related Documents)
Typed note from Ridgeway reading: 'The contents of this box are from graves near Koban in the Caucasus and were given to me by Mr John Baddeley the historian of the Russian conquest of the Caucasus, etc. etc'. And in pencil 'See P.S. Urarova Mat. for Arch, A Caucatas VIII.'
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn
Context (Found together / assemblage)
Part of a group of objects from graves.
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)
Context (References)
Uvarova, P.S. (1900). 'The Cemeteries of North Caucasus'. Materials for Caucasian Archaeology, Vol. 8. Moscow.
Event Date 1900
Author: Imogen Gunn
Context (Related Documents)
A letter (dated 27/11/1903) from John Baddeley to William Ridgeway says: 'I am now sending a small box containing some beads, iron axeheads and a glass bracelet from Saniba, an Ossetine village a few miles south of Koban. Various dates have been assigned for the grave-find, some BC, some AD. Anyway it is much later than the old Koban.'
Event Date 27/11/1903
Author: Imogen Gunn
Description (Physical description)
I consists of twenty objects.
Event Date 27/9/2000
Author: Clare McKenna
Description (Physical description)
Fragment of round metal, possibly a mirror. Flat with one rounded edge with bevelled outer rim; both sides have patina, the upper surface has a shiny surface and trace of tin.
Event Date 10/4/2024
Author: Clare McKenna
FM:311901
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