Modes and ways of cultural interaction of the nomads of Asian Sarmatia. imported objects in Sarmatian contexts dating from the 2nd century BC to the 3rd century AD

德国联邦政府和俄罗斯联邦政府之间的协议框架下的德俄项目，由M。Treister和BA Raev的目的是系统地介绍进口的对象，作为亚洲萨尔马提亚埋葬环境的一部分。古代的亚洲萨尔马提亚包括从顿河河口到乌拉尔和西哈萨克斯坦草原的领土。从公元前2世纪到公元3世纪，生活在这片土地上的游牧民族，被古代作者称为萨尔马提亚人，与晚期希腊化王国、罗马帝国、北黑海地区的博斯普鲁斯王国以及帕提亚帝国、中亚和汉朝的中国都有过接触。从160多个墓葬群中发现的物品，包括各种来源的物品，构成了萨尔马提亚人物质文化的重要组成部分，可以得出这一结论。然而，本研究的目的不仅是调查这些人工制品的时间顺序，时间顺序，并找出他们的起源，以及确定他们的选择和使用的手段，以及他们的仿制品的创造。该项目的重点是从亚洲萨尔马提亚游牧民族与上述邻国以及沿着丝绸之路和毛皮之路的互动形式和方式的角度分析物品的起源。贸易、赠与与战时掠夺一起被证明属于侵占外国物的形式和方式。将通过系统地绘制这些项目的分布图来追踪这些过程在空间和时间上的变化，并将证明与书面资料所报告的历史变化的可能相关性。这个项目的方法的特点是，它不会像通常情况下那样，集中在一个物质类型，一个地区的调查领土或一个地区的原产地的对象，如罗马帝国。关键是要重建萨尔马提亚群体相互作用的复杂网络。这项任务不能由两位学者独自完成，而必须由一个国际团队来完成，将自然科学，历史和考古学的专业知识带入该项目，并将结果总结为两卷本的专著，俄语和德语版本。在M. Treister和BA Raev首先应该在目录中记录现代学者水平的对象，包括对其上下文的彻底档案研究，然后由专家组针对不同的材料和地区进行分析和讨论。为此目的，还计划在一次国际讲习班的框架内讨论并同时首次公布这些分析的结果，从而促进目前紧张局势下的科学交流。

The German-Russian project in frames of the Agreement between the DFG and RGNF headed by M. Treister and B.A. Raev has the aim to present systematically the imported objects as part of the burial contexts from the Asian Sarmatia. The ancient term Asian Sarmatia includes a territory from the estuary of the Don River to the Urals and the steppes of West Kazakhstan. In the period from the 2nd century BC to the 3rd century AD the nomads living in this territory, who were called Sarmatians by the ancient authors, had contacts with the late Hellenistic Kingdoms, with Imperium Romanum, with the Bosporan Kingdom in the North Black Sea area, and also with the Parthian Empire, the Central Asia and China of the Han-Dynasty. The finds from more than 160 burial complexes, which include the objects of various provenances, building an important part of the material culture of the Sarmatians, allow this conclusion. However, the aim of the present study is not only to investigate these artefacts chronologically, chorologically and to find out their origin as well to identify the means of their selection and use, as well as the creation of their imitations. The project is rather focused on the analysis of the origin of objects from the standpoint of the forms and ways of interaction of the nomads of the Asian Sarmatia with the above mentioned neighboring states as well as along the Silk Road and the Fur-Route. Trade and gifts together with plunder in wartime are proven to belong to the forms and ways of appropriation of foreign objects. The changes in these processes in space and time will be traced through systematic mapping of the distribution of these items and the possible correlations with historical changes reported by the written sources will be proved. The peculiarity of the approach of this project is that it will not, as was usually the case, concentrate on one material type, one region of the investigated territory or one area of origin of the objects, such as the Roman Empire. The point is to reconstruct the complex networks of interaction of the Sarmatian groups. This task cannot be solved by the two scholars alone, but only with an international team, bringing the expertise of natural sciences, history and archaeology in the project with the results summing in a two-volume monograph, both in Russian and in German version. Basing on the extensive preparatory works by M. Treister and B.A. Raev the objects should be first of all documented on the modern scholar level in a catalogue including the thorough archive study of their contexts, and afterwards analyzed and discussed by the group of specialists for the different materials and regions. For this purpose it is also planned to discuss and at the same time to make first public the results of these analyses in frames of an international workshop which will thus promote the scientific exchange in the current tense situation.