Demidenko S.V.
Key words: Takhti-Sangin, Barmashino, bronze cauldrons, moulding forms, chronology, technology, traditions, Greece, Central Asia, China.

The author analyses a “type” of bronze cauldrons “Takhti-Sangin–Barmashino” and concludes that this “type” as a taxonomic unit does not exist as it consists of the examples that differ according both morphological and technological parameters. They are dated on the basis of the complex near the Lake Borovoe not earlier than the 6th century. The usage of such “analogues” for reconstructing “casting forms” with Greek inscriptions from the settlement Takhti-Saka referring to the second half of the 1st – the beginning of the 2nd centuries AD, is incorrect. Simultaneously, the problem of the mutual interfering of the Greek, Chinese and Scythian- Saka traditions of the metalwork on the territory of Greece-Bactria in the epoch of Hellenism is considered premature.