Costume details and decorations

Name of the exhibit

Bronze overlay (for the bag)

Brief description

Cross-shaped, slightly convex, drop-shaped, the central part ends with a ledge which serves as a vertical loop with a cone; on its sides there are two rounded ledges with rivets on the back side for fixation on the wallet leather base. The lower part is decorated with a ledge in the form of an inverted drop, pointed to the bottom. Such bags were worn on the belt

Period/date

14th–15th centuries

Manufacturing material

Bronze

Dimensions

Dimensions: 3,2 × 2,0 cm, thickness 0,2 cm; loop diameter 0,55 cm, rivet height 0,3 cm, rivet diameter 0,3 cm.

Place of storage, inventory number

Kherson Regional Museum of Local Lore. Inv. No. BX-1355.

First publication

«Na rozi dvokh svitiv. Istorychna spadshchyna Ukrainy ta Lytvy na terytorii Khersonskoi oblasti». Authors: S.O.Biliaieva, K.S.Hulenko, O.Ye.Fialko, M.M.Iievlev, O.V.Hrabovska, O.V.Manihda, O.V.Chubenko. O.V.Symonenko, O.V.Dzneladze, D.M.Sikoza. Kyiv-Kherson, Hileia, 2018, p. 20, ill. 11, 2.