Гральні набори з розкопок П.І. Смолічева із заплавного могильника Шестовиці

• Published in: Археологія
• Date: 2016
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 69-78
• ISSN: 2616-499X
• Author Affiliations: Natalia V. Khamaiko — Institute of Archeology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
• Main Author: Khamaiko, Natalia V.
• Format: Article
• Language: Ukrainian
• Published: Institute of Archaeology NAS of Ukraine 2016
• Subjects: гра; hnefatafl; млин; гральні фігурки; гральний набір; пішак; король; імпорт; скло.
• Online Access: https://arheologia.com.ua/index.php/arheologia/article/view/199
• Journal Title: Chemistry, Physics and Technology of Surface

Based on the archival sources, the republication of lost today gaming pieces found during the research at the floodplain burial ground by P.I. Smolychev in 1926 is conducted in the article. Systematized is the data on the analogies, on the chronology of assemblages and the typological structure of the pieces, which are found in the 10th century burials, and also as single findings in synchronous cultural layers at the settlements in Kyiv Rus and Scandinavia. Gaming pieces made of glass are concentrated in so called «retinue» centres related with the Scandinavian influence and were the imports for Kyiv Rus. Analogies of glass pieces reveal their belonging to North European cultural circle, irrespectively of their place of production, which is not finally determined today. Discoveries of such findings in barrows at Shestovytsia, with a cremated at the place burial among them containing the remains in urn peculiar for the 10th century Slavs in Ancient Rus millieu, testify that the game was adopted by the local population, though with reservation on localization of such findings at the main trade routs.