[tied] Re: Yers

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, george knysh <gknysh@...> wrote:

> > (VK)the ongoing dispute, Bulgar vs. Khazar, about the so
> > called "Malaja
> > Pereshchepina" type of VII-VIII c. luxurious burials
> > west of Dniepr,
>
> *****GK: Mala Pereshchypyna is actually east of the
> Dnipro. There is some doubt (e.g. Florin Curta) that
> MP itself is a burial. I'm still researching this. Can
> you give me some evidence that we are dealing with an
> actual burial here, rather than with an assemblage of
> objects which could earlier have been part of some
> burial? This is an honest question. I see that JW
> (1984) speaks of a coffin, but is it really a coffin
> or items that can be assumed to have been intended for
> a coffin?*****

golden pieces, plates from MP have been interpreted as coming from
the shell of a coffin. But how can one be sure when MP
was 'excavated' by the local peasants and later the archaeologists
were going from house to house to collect (some of) the material -
20+ kg of gold and 40+ kg of silver. Probably by asking whether it
was an inhumation or cremation (i.e. Turkic) you want to determine
its identity - Bulgar or Khazar? But in view of the numerous crosses
in MP and the two monograms, if they are to be read as 'patrician
Kobratos' and thus belong to khan Kubrat, a Christian, then even an
inhumation wouldn't help you. There is a recent study of St. Stanilov
on the precious metals' plastic from the MP group and it tries to
answer the question from that angle.


Regards,
Vassil