Iranians and Greeks in South Russia - Robert Bedrosian's Armenian ...

THE SCYTHIANS IN SOUTH RUSSIA 47
was made in the steppes. A trench, often of considerable size, was
then dug in the virgin soil, with a corridor sloping down to it. Beams
were placed along the walls of the trench and of the corridor : the
trench was covered with a conical, and the corridor with a gabled roof.
The roof of the tomb chamber was also supported by strong beams
planted in the middle of the trench. The cubical frame of the tomb
was probably lined with mats and rugs, so as to make an almost exact
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copy of a nomadic tent. - Under the tent, another smaller one was
sometimes constructed to contain the body of the chief and the
treasures which were buried with him. In the fourth century, under
Greek influence, this tent was replaced by a chamber of dressed stone
with a wooden roof. Round the central tent containing the chief's
body, other skeletons are nearly always found, sometimes female, but
usually male, the female richly adorned, the male unadorned but
furnished with weapons. Round the chamber, on the edge of the
trench, bodies of horses,, sometimes several hundreds, were disposed
in regular order. In the Ulski tumulus (fig. 4) the bodies of the horses
were grouped round the pillars of the tent, with wooden structures,