Zoomorphic jug from the village Sidory (the Lower Volga region). To the problem of ceramic import from the Kuban region

In 1959, the Astrakhan expedition excavated barrow 2 of the Koroleva mogila burial mound near the village Sidory of the Volgograd region. The burial had been robbed, but some parts of zoomorphic gray-polished jug were found among the grave goods.Similar vessels were found in the barrows of the Sarmatian period near the villages Ladozhskaya and Tiflisskaya in the Kuban region. All three vessels reproduce the stylized form of a duck.The distribution of the finds shows that most of the gray-polished pottery from the Lower Volga region were found in the southernmost territory of the Astrakhan region. According to A. S. Skripkin, the import of gray-clay ceramics to the Lower Volga region was associated with the Meotian and Meoto-Sarmatian workshop-agricultural settlements of the Kuban and Lower Don regions.Beyond the Middle Kuban, the only and closest parallel to bird-shaped jugs is a vessel from kitchen in Sardis, but it dates to the 6th century BC. Despite the differences in some details and a gap of 700 years, the genetic link of all these vessels appears to be obvious...