A hoard from the village of Volgino, Perm province

Abstract

The publication opens a series of papers devoted to the hoards of the Middle Ages discovered on the territory of the Perm Region. The paper considers the discovery of a medieval hoard trove found in the middle of the XIX century in the village of Volgino, Perm province. The treasure itself was "lost" in the second half of the XIX century, but its analysis became possible due to the publication of Professor S.V. Yeshevsky of the Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages in Moscow. The treasure included Kama grain-filigree jewelry, silver ingots of various origins, Glazov-type hrivnia, Sogdian dish and fragments of silver plates. Most of the items find analogies in the materials of medieval monuments of the Finno-Ugric population of Eastern Europe. The analysis of the items revealed that their manufacture dates back to the VIII–XIII centuries, but the time of hiding the treasure was not earlier than the XIIth century. The analysis of the inventory of the hoard allows us to conclude that the treasure was of a «raw material» or of «accumulative» nature.