Editing Sarmatians (section)

=== Metalwork ===
The early Sarmatians already possessed the technique of decorating with gold inclusions, observed in Achaemenid metalwork. It was spread by nomads in the Eurasian steppes during the 7th-5th century BCE, from the Altai Mountains ([[Arzhan-2]] kurgan) westward to central Kazakhstan and the southern Urals.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Shemakhanskaya |first1=Marina |last2=Treister |first2=Mikhail |last3=Yablonsky |first3=Leonid |date=31 December 2009 |title=The technique of gold inlaid decoration in the 5th-4th centuries BC: silver and iron finds from the early Sarmatian barrows of Filippovka, Southern Urals |journal=ArcheoSciences. Revue d'archéométrie |volume=33 |language=fr |issue=33 |pages=211–220 |doi=10.4000/archeosciences.2223 |issn=1960-1360|doi-access=free }}</ref> [[Peter the Great]] particularly cherished his Demidov Gift, a Sarmatian gold collection,<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Haskins |first=John F. |date=1959 |title=Sarmatian Gold Collected by Peter the Great: - VII; The Demidov Gift and Conclusions |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3249145 |journal=Artibus Asiae |volume=22 |issue=1/2 |pages=64–78 |doi=10.2307/3249145 |jstor=3249145 |issn=0004-3648}}</ref> now exhibited in the Gold Chamber at the [[Hermitage Museum]] in [[Saint Petersburg|St. Petersburg]]. The Novocherkassk Treasure with the famous Sarmatian Diadem<ref>{{Cite web |title=Realms Of Gold The Novel: Treasures of the Sarmatians: Diadem |url=http://realmsofgoldthenovel.blogspot.com/2013/04/treasures-of-samaritans-diadem.html |access-date=1 September 2023 |website=Realms Of Gold The Novel}}</ref> adorned with the [[Tree of life|Tree of Life]] can also be seen in the Hermitage Gold Room.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Hermitage Gold Room - uVisitRussia |url=https://www.uvisitrussia.com/hermitage-gold-room/ |access-date=1 September 2023 |website=www.uvisitrussia.com}}</ref> It is a Sarmatian hoard of gold, silver and bronze articles and jewellery discovered in the Khokhlach barrow in Novocherkassk in 1864. Chronologically it belongs to the first and second centuries CE.<ref>{{Cite web |title=State Hermitage Museum: East/Central Europe (including early nomads) |url=https://depts.washington.edu/silkroad/museums/shm/shmeeur.html |access-date=1 September 2023 |website=depts.washington.edu}}</ref>

Numerous weapons, armour, helmets were already found in the excavations of the Early Sarmatian [[Filippovka kurgan]] (c. 450-300 BCE):<ref name="LTY2013">{{cite journal |last1=Yablonsky |first1=L.T. |title=РАННЕСАРМАТСКИЙ РЫЦАРЬ (Sarmatian warrior) |journal=Поволжская археология (The Volga River Region Archaeology) |date=2013 |volume=2 |issue=4 |pages=104–135 |url=http://archtat.ru/content/uploads/2017/12/PA_2013_24.pdf}}</ref>

Many Chinese mirrors can be found in graves of the Middle-Sarmatian to Late-Sarmatian periods.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Treister |first1=Mikhail |last2=Ravich |first2=Irina |title=Chinese mirrors from the burials of the nomads of Eastern Europe of the second half of the 1st millennium BC-first centuries AD: Typology, chronology, distribution and technology of manufacture |journal=Advances in Archaeomaterials |date=June 2021 |volume=2 |issue=1 |pages=24–48 |doi=10.1016/j.aia.2021.07.001 |doi-access=free }}</ref>

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File:Filippovka 1 Iron armour from burial 2 mound 4.jpg|Filippovka 1 Iron armour from burial 2 mound 4
File:Filippovka 1, Horn armour from mound 29.jpg|Filippovka 1, Horn armour from mound 29
File:Filippovka 1, bronze arrowheads from burial 2, mound 4.jpg|Filippovka 1, bronze arrowheads from burial 2, mound 4
File:Filippovka 1, iron helmets from mound 11.jpg|Filippovka 1, iron helmets from mound 11
File:Filippovka 1, iron sowrds and daggers.jpg|Filippovka 1, iron swords and daggers
File:Золото сарматских вождей. Gold of the Sarmatian - Dagger, Kurgan 4, Burial 2, Filippovka.jpg|Filippovka 1, bronze and inlaid gold dagger 
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