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Notă despre un nou "akinakes" găsit la Agapia

  • Subiect: At Agapia (village Agapia, county Neamţ) a Scythian poniard was accidentally discovered ("akinakes"). Though it has fragmentarily reached us, the poniard belongs to the series of those "akinakes" with a straight bar at the haft and with a hilt guard in a form of a heart (see the notes 1-4 about the sizes and the form of the poniard and about its parts) (fig. 1 and 2). One can see, as well as at the other Scythian poniards (Măcişeni, Cipău, Văratec and Ghindăoani), that one of the extremities of the transversal bar is pointed. We explain this fact by the production technology (see note 9). The "Akinakes" from Agapia has the nearest analogy with the poniards discovered at Boureni, Măcişeni, Văratec, Ghindăoani and Suseni, all of them making up a special subgroup, specific to central Moldavia, that of the "akinakes" with the straight transversal bar at the haft. On the analogy of other similar discoveries from our country and on the territory of the Soviet Union (see the notes 17-41) the "akinakes" discovered at Agapia dates in the second half of the 6th century B.C. Starting from the information given by Herodot, as well as on the basis of the distribution of discoveries of "akinakes" on the territory of Moldavia (fig. 3) we think that the concentration of "akinakes" round the town of Târgu Neamţ shows a way of penetration of some Scythian tribes in Transylvania and towards the Mureş valley, through the pass Prisăcani (Tulgheş), crossing the Eastern Carpathians (fig. 4). This passing of the Agathyrson to Transylvania through Moldavia and through the Eastern Carpathians took place probably before the Persian expedition of Darius I (514 B.C.). The second group of the Scythian poniard with antenna at the haft, discovered in South Moldavia (except the Scythian ones discovered in the necropolis of cremation from Bârseşti which probably belonged to the natives) attests a Scythian penetration directed to the South, which took place, in our opinion, after Darius' I defeat. At last, the "akinakes" which are hybrid (with combinations of parts from more types of Scythian poniards) belonged to the native population.
  • Limba de redactare: română, engleză
  • Secţiunea: Note şi discuţii
  • Vezi publicația: Memoria Antiquitatis: MemAntiq
  • Editura: Muzeul Arheologic Piatra Neamţ
  • Loc publicare: Piatra Neamţ
  • Anul publicaţiei: 1971
  • Referinţă bibliografică pentru nr. revistă: III; anul 1971; subtitlu: Acta Musei Petrodavensis. Omagiu PCR 1921-1971
  • Paginaţia: 441-454
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