Belt buckle
Pear-shaped bronze item with a straight cut narrow edge (buckle) and a relief image of onager (donkey). The item has two sub-rectangular loops on the back side. Some pieces of belt leather remained on loops. The image on plates is specular, i.e. when fastening the belt, the heads of the animals were directed towards each other. Both exhibits have indentations on the back side that repeat the image relief on the front side.
The item was found in the burial №52, at a depth of 2 m.
Manufacturing technique
Bronze casting buckles with a convex image of onager are made with casting technique, amalgam gilding that is badly erased and remained only in some indentations.
Use-wear traces
On a buckle №329a (back side), there are two loops located closer to the narrow sides. Diameter of the loop is near 0,25-0,3 cm. The exhibit №329b has an eyelet that is partly lost. Remained part has some traces of a later repairs (remains of an iron blade fixed on iron rivets).
Storage location
The museum of BSC SB RASInventory number
329АSize
Length - 90,84 mm
Width (the wide part) - 58,52 mm
Width (the narrow part) - 41,07 mm
Thickness - 2,40 mm
Material
Bronze with gildingDating
III cent. BC - I cent. ADCulture
XiongnuThe author of the excavations
Imenhoyev N.V.1985
Publications
Konovalov P.B., Bazarov B.A., Imenohoev N.V., Miyagashev D.A. Poyasnaya furnitura iz enhorskogo hunnskogo mogil'nika (r.Dzhida, Respublika Buryatiya) // Izvestiya Laboratorii drevnih tekhnologij. - 2018. - №4 (29). - S.64-77
