No open-access location is known for this record yet.
No open-access location is known for this record yet.
The article presents the circumstances of discovery in the territory of the Baraba forest-steppe (near Lake Wait, Karagatskom in the Novosibirsk region) of a metal mirror, heavily coated with oxides. The find has been subjected to the restoration at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences which provided a more visible image on the reverse (ornamented) side of the product. Determination of the chemical composition of the metal used was made using a portable X-ray fluorescence spectrometer ALPHA SERIESTM (model Alpha-2000, US production). The results indicate copper-tin-lead alloys. Consideration of design features of the mirror allows defining dating and a wide range of analogies. A special place in the article is given to the attempt to explain how the object came to Baraba and its being in the so-called Tereninskih yurts. The map of the 17th century. and other information are used to identify the name of the recorded archaeological sites. Published medieval mirror of the Chinese sample continues a series of finds originating from Western Siberia. Such information needs modern synthesis.
Loading…
Imported from OpenAlex (CC0) — nothing here is generated.