# Solokha
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{{short description|Scythian burial mound in Ukraine}}
:''Solokha is also the name of a witch in [Rimsky-Korsakov](/source/Rimsky-Korsakov)'s opera [Christmas Eve](/source/Christmas_Eve_(opera)).''
:''Solokha is also a hamlet at {{coord|49.969|N|34.330|E|}}.''
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{{Infobox ancient site
|image = Solokha barrow. V c. BC (Царский курган) - panoramio.jpg
|caption = Solokha in 2011
|embedded = {{Infobox historic site |embed = yes |designation1 = UKRAINE NATIONAL |designation1_offname = {{Lang|uk|Курганний могильник "Солоха"}} (''Solokha kurgan grave field'') |designation1_type = Archaeology |designation1_number = 080010-Н}}
}}
[[File:Scythian comb.jpg|270px|thumb|[Scythian golden comb](/source/Solokha_comb), probably made by Greeks, from Solokha, early 4th century BCE, [Hermitage Museum](/source/Hermitage_Museum)]]
The '''Solokha''' ({{lang|uk|Солоха}}) [kurgan](/source/kurgan) is on the left bank of the [Dnieper](/source/Dnieper), 18 km from [Kamianka-Dniprovska](/source/Kamianka-Dniprovska), opposite [Nikopol](/source/Nikopol%2C_Ukraine), in [central](/source/Central_Ukraine) [Ukraine](/source/Ukraine). It has a height of 19 m and a diameter of about 100 m, dating to the early 4th century BC.
The burial mound contained two royal [Scythian](/source/Scythians) tombs, the central tomb had been robbed already in antiquity, but still contained the remains of a female ruler and two horses in rich attire, while the side tomb was found intact by the 1912–13 campaign by the Russian archaeologist [Nikolay Veselovsky](/source/Nikolay_Veselovsky).
The intact lateral tomb yielded spectacular treasures.[[Bobrinskoy, A.](/source/Aleksei_Aleksandrovich_Bobrinsky) (1914) ''Le Kourgan de Solokha (Russie Meridionale).'' Revue archéologique, Quatrieme Serie 23, 161–163.] It contained the remains of a male ruler, completely covered in gold. He had been buried with his weapon bearer, a servant and five horses. He was armed with bronze greaves, a bronze helmet, and a sword in a sheath covered with gold sheets and a quiver covered in silver containing 80 bronze arrowheads. The most notable find in the grave, however, was a golden [comb](/source/comb) with an extremely detailed group of three fighting warriors worked in gold. The comb, as well as other finds, are part of the [Hermitage Museum](/source/Hermitage_Museum)'s holdings of [Scythian art](/source/Scythian_art).[Piotrovsky, 30]
The site appears to have confirmed the historicity of an account of [Herodotus](/source/Herodotus).[Piotrovsky, 30] It is in an area where according to Herodotus the "royal Scythians" buried their kings, the land of [Gerrhos](/source/Gerrhos), corresponding approximately to the modern [Zaporizhzhia Oblast](/source/Zaporizhzhia_Oblast). {{Citation needed|reason=Source provided only attests to evidence for rituals depicted within objects at the site - and no evidence given that this is the royal burial site at Gerrhos Herodotus discusses, itself a subject of academic debate.|date=June 2025}}
==Notes==
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==References==
*[Piotrovsky, Boris](/source/Boris_Piotrovsky), et al. "Excavations and Discoveries in Scythian Lands", in ''From the Lands of the Scythians: Ancient Treasures from the Museums of the U.S.S.R., 3000 B.C.–100 B.C.'' The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 32, no. 5 (1974), [http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/24.97.50,51 available online as a series of PDFs] (bottom of the page).
==Literature==
*Schiltz, Véronique, ''Kelermès et Solokha'', Les Dossiers d'archéologie ISSN 1141-7137, no 259 (2000–2001), 20–23.
* Алексеев А.Ю. К идентификации погребений кургана Солоха //Тез. докл. междунар. конф. «Проблемы скифо-сарматской археологии Северного Причерноморья», посвящ. 95-летию со дня рождения профессора Б.Н.Гракова. – Запорожье, 1994. – II.
* Алексеев А.Ю. Гребень из кургана Солоха в контексте династической истории Скифии //Эрмитажные чтения памяти Б.Б.Пиотровского. Тез. докл. – Санкт-Петербург, 1996.
* Кузнецов C. В. Щиты на золотом гребне из кургана «Солоха» //Проблемы ски-фо-сарматской археологии Северного Причерноморья (К 100-летию Б.Н.Гракова). – Запорожье, 1999.Мозолевський Б.М. Солоха // Мозолевський Б.М. Скіфський степ. – Київ, 1983. - С. 83-94
* Манцевич А.П. Гребень и фиала из кургана Солоха //СА. – 1951. – XIII.
* Манцевич А.П. Золотой гребень из кургана Солоха. – Ленинград: Изд-во ГЭ, 1962.
* Манцевич А.П. Горит из кургана Солоха //ТГЭ. – 1962. – Т.3.
* Манцевич А.П. Курган Солоха. Публикация одной коллекции. – Ленинград:Искусство, 1987.
* Половцова С. Объяснение изображений на драгоценных вещах из Солохи проф. Свороносом //ИАК. – 1918. – Вып. 65.
* Русяева М.В. Золотой гребень из кургана Солоха //VI чтения памяти профессора В.Д.Блаватского. К 100-летию со дня рождения. Тезисы докладов 21-22 мая 1999 г. – М., 1999. – С.96-97.
* Русяева М.В. Сцена охоты на чаше из кургана Солоха // V Боспорские чтения. Боспор Киммерийский и варварский мир в период античности и средневековья. Этнические процессы. – Керчь, 2004. – С. 301–306.
* Русяева М.В. Серебряная чаша из кургана Солоха // Боспорские исследования. – Вып. IX. – Керчь, 2005. – C. 112–126.
* Фармаковский Б.В. Горит из кургана Солоха //ИРАИМК. – 1922. – II.
==External links==
*http://hermitage.informbureau.com/the_hermitage_-_the_department_of_prehistoric_culture.htm
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Category:Archaeological sites in Ukraine
Category:Archaeological collections of the Hermitage Museum
Category:Iranian archaeological sites
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