An early Scythian warrior burial from the Beysuzhek XXXV cemetery in the Kuban region

The paper introduces results of the detailed study of a funerary assemblage originating from a warrior's burial attributed to the early Scythian culture which was excavated in the Beysuzhek XXXV cemetery in the Kuban Region. A circle of analogies for the cast bronze scabbard-chape makes it possible to include it in a group of items typical for Scythian antiquities dating to the second half of the 7th - early 6th centuries BC. The co-occurrence of this scabbard-chape and rosette beads which mark movements of the Scythian groups and their links with the Transcaucasia appears to be unusual.