This article explores the phenomenon of a specific type of personal adornment worn by members of the Scythian elite in the North Black Sea region in the second half of the 5th century and throughout the 4th century BCE. The discussion juxtaposes the records from 19th-century and early 20th-century excavations with contextual analyses of very recent discoveries from Ukraine, which shed significant new light on the appearance, production, and meaning of Scythian jewelry. The reconstruction of the shape of the jewelry type in question is greatly complicated by two factors: the lack of relevant depictions in the contemporary corpus of Scythian and Greco-Scythian figure scenes and misleading scholarly references to supposed analogies in a Roman-era mosaic, which became the chief reason for the misinterpretations of the ornament’s appearance. Composed of numerous gold or gilded silver tubes; beads; pendants; and, sometimes, “buttons,” this jewelry type is reconstructed in two gender-specific variants in this article: one mesh-like and the other with a cross-chest form. For over a hundred years, scholars have considered only the mesh variant to be the correct reconstruction. As a result, many costume reconstructions of this jewelry form in specialist research and museum displays alike are still proposed without a sufficient evidentiary base.

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斯基泰珠宝网格及其解释问题

本文探讨了公元前 5 世纪下半叶和整个公元前 4 世纪北黑海地区斯基泰精英成员所佩戴的特定类型个人装饰品的现象。讨论将 19 世纪和 20 世纪早期的发掘记录与乌克兰最近发现的背景分析并列在一起，这为了解斯基泰珠宝的外观、生产和意义提供了重要的新线索。所讨论的珠宝类型形状的重建因两个因素而变得非常复杂：当代斯基泰和希腊-斯基泰人物场景中缺乏相关描述，以及对罗马时代马赛克中假定类比的误导性学术参考，这成为对装饰品外观的误解的主要原因。由无数金管或镀金银管组成；珠子;吊坠；有时还有“纽扣”，在本文中，这种珠宝类型被重构为两种特定于性别的变体：一种是网状的，另一种是交叉胸前的形状。一百多年来，学者们一直认为只有网格变体才是正确的重建。因此，在专业研究和博物馆展览中，仍然提出了许多对这种珠宝形式的服装重建，但没有足够的证据基础。