Karagodeuashkh

Karagodeuashkh 

a burial mound, the richest of all the known remains of the Sind-Maeotae (Meotae) population of the Kuban’ region in the fourth-third century B.C. Located near Krymskaia Stanitsa (large cossack village) in Krasnodar Krai, it was excavated by E. D. Felitsin in 1888. The burial mound contained two stone funeral chambers with dromi. The skeleton of a man was discovered in the main chamber along with gold plaques that were part of his headgear and a gold torque around the neck. Next to him lay weapons decorated with gold, and bronze and silver vessels. The second chamber was empty, but several skeletons of horses with remains of a burial chariot were found in its dromos, as well as the burial of a young woman in rich ritual attire of gold and silver and the remains of a funerary feast. Karagodeuaskhk resembles the royal Scythian barrows in the lower Dnieper region.

REFERENCE

Lappo-Danilevskii, A., and V. Mal’mberg. Drevnosti iuzhnoi Rossii: Kurgan Karagodeuashkh. St. Petersburg, 1894. (Materialy po arkheologiiRossii, no. 13.)