Погребения с накладками седел эпохи Великого переселения народов и раннемеровингского времени в Западной Европе: восточные параллели

Western Europe is known to currently have three burials of the Migration Period and the EarlyMerovingian period with metal appliques. They are Mundolsheim in Alsace, Ravenna in Northern Italy andKrefeld-Gellep (burial 1782) on the Rhine. According to the luxurious nature of the accompanying things allthese burials belong to privileged persons. The burial in Mundolsheim belongs to the first half of the 5th century,while the burials in Ravenna and Krefeld-Gellep date back to the second half – the end of the 5th – the middleof the 6th centuries. The grave in Mundolsheim was found with triangular applique plates. Similar items arediscovered in the Eurasian steppe between the Lower Danube and the East Kazakhstan. They date back to theHunnic and post-Hunnic times. The most similar in shape triangular appliques originate from the Hunnic findsin the Carpathian basin (Széged-Nagyszéksos, Pécsüszög) and from the burial of a barbarian leader in Conceşti,in romanian Moldova. Early Merovingian burials in Ravenna and Krefeld-Gellep are found with segmentedelongated appliques with inlaid edges. This form of the appliques also has twins mainly in the Eurasian steppezone, primarily in the Ponto-Caucasian region. Although similar items also appear in the Volga-Ural steppesand in Western Kazakhstan. However, the inlaid decor along the edge of the plates is found only on WesternEuropean appliques. It may indicate that the plates were made in some Western atelier mimicking ‘Eastern’samples. Triangular and segmental saddle appliques spread across such a wide area due to the influence of theprestigious warrior culture of the late Rome/Byzantium and possibly Sasanian Iran.