On One Type of Early Sarmatian Incense Burner

Abstract

The article features a rarely encountered type of incense burner of a cubic form from the burial sites of the Early Sarmatian culture. Only three instances of such incense burners in the burials of the second and first centuries BCE are known in the Volga—Don region. This type of incense burner becomes widely prevalent at a later time, starting with the mid-second century BCE, in burials of the Late Sarmatian culture. The context of the finds of early cubic incense burners allows us to assume that migrations of nomads into the region of the Volga—Don steppes in the Early and Late Sarmatian period originated from a close territory.