Results of X-ray Fluorescence Analysis of the Alloy Composition of Metal Ornaments from the Cemetery of Batyrskii 1: A Brief Communication

The X-ray fluorescence spectrometer allowed the ones to study the ornaments from the cemetery of Batyrskii 1 (in the area of Novorossiysk): one bronze and seven silver spiral temple pendants, two lunular pendants, and one neck-ring. The purpose of this article is to introduce these results into the scholarship and to replenish the database on metals and alloys of the ancient Bosporos. The set of ornaments from the cemetery of Batyrskii 1 demonstrates a fairly high status of the buried persons, who were accompanied to the afterlife by popular ornaments made of precious high-grade silver. Only one pendant is made of metal imitating silver.