Реконструкция женского головного убора из кургана пазырыкской культуры могильника Чинета II (Алтай)

Abstract

The article presents a reconstruction of a female headdress-wig, which was discovered during the study of mound №34 of the Chineta II burial ground, located in the Krasnoshchekovsky district of the Altai Territory. The peculiarities of the funeral rite and inventory from mound №34 of the Chineta-II burial ground have numerous analogies among the artifacts found during the study of the mounds of the Pazyryk culture. The barrow is dated to the second half of the 4th–3rd centuries BC. The presence of socially diagnosing items of accompanying inventory (a headdress-wig, a bronze hryvnia lined with gold foil), as well as the features of the funeral rite (the accompanying burial of a horse), emphasize the higher social status of the woman buried in mound № 34 of the Chineta II burial ground. The closest analogy to the headdress from barrow № 34 of the Chineta II burial ground is women’s headdresses from barrow № 15 of the Khankarinsky burial ground and barrow № 1 of the Ak-Alakha-3 burial ground.