The formation of the source base of Sokolovskaya balka type monuments. Shilov V.P.: the Ordynsky bugor burial mound

The paper is dedicated to the publication of materials on two barrows with two Khazar-era burials from the Ordynsky bugor burial mound. The archaeological site was located in the Chernoyarsky district of the Astrakhan region and was investigated by the Astrakhan archaeological mission of the Leningrad Department of the Institute of Archaeology, Academy of Sciences of the USSR in 1963. The mission was headed by Cand. Sc. (History) Valentin Pavlovich Shilov, and the scientific report on the investigation was written by Liya Yakovlevna Malovitskaya. The paper analyzes the grave goods from the burials: harness elements (stirrups), moulded vessels of the nomadic type, a compound bow. The most outstanding find is represented with the golden Arab dinar of al-Mansur dated by 143 (760/761 AD). Aleksey Andreevich Bykov, a numismatist and Orientalist, discovered that the dinar had a graffito on it, which was of particular importance. The author suggested a numismatic description of this coin...