Buckles and fibulae from the Aldar-Rezen cemeterynear the kumbulta village from K. I. Olshevsky's excavations: collections of the State historical museum

The paper presents analysis of the chronological markers pertaining to theAldar Rezen cemetery near the village of Kumbulta in the Digori gorge (present-day Irafskydistrict of North Ossetia-Alania). Six graves of the necropolis were excavated in the 1880sby K. I. Olshevsky, whose diary was published by Countess P. S. Uvarova. The gravesof the cemetery are stone-lined pits containing single and multiple burials. It does notseem possible to divide the funeral offerings acquired by the State Historical Museuminto assemblages; therefore, the offerings are analyzed as a single collection. The studyof the buckles and fibulae from Aldar-Rezen helped determine its chronology, whichfalls within the 3rd-5th centuries. Composite two-piece arch-shaped fibulae, which arebasically reworked Koban one-piece arch-shaped fibulae, typical for the Late Sarmatianperiod, are worth mentioning. Besides the fibulae, the grave gifts also include pendantsshaped as human and animal figures, which are also reworked versions of the Kobanitems. Therefore, the cemetery in question belonged to descendants of the Koban culturalcommunity.