--- Vassil Karloukovski <
v.karloukovski@...>
wrote:
Probably by
> asking whether it
> was an inhumation or cremation (i.e. Turkic) you
> want to determine
> its identity - Bulgar or Khazar?
*****GK: No. I just want to determine if this was a
genuine burial or an assemblage of precious objects
buried as a "treasure", which may or may not have been
spoils taken from a tomb. As to identity, I see
nothing Khazar in it. My tentative view is that it was
a treasure hidden by an important Kutrigur during
their "time of troubles" in the late 7th or early 8th
c. Perhaps even by the Kutrigur khan of the epoch. We
know that the Kutrigur Bulgars resisted Khazar
pressure far longer than the Bulgars of Batbayan.===
As to inhumation/cremation, my question pertained to
the localization of the Pastyrs'k type pottery on the Danube.*****
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