RUSSIAN ARCHAEOLOGY - The classification of the seven-bladed ornaments of the temple rings of a Moscow type and the problem of their ethnic interpretation

Krenke N.A.

Key words: temple rings, seven-bladed, Vyatichi, ornaments.

The article gives a new classification of the ornaments on the seven-bladed Moscow type temple rings. Six chronological stages and three ornamental traditions have been pointed out. A suggestion has been made that the Moscow type rings have been developed from the beambladed rings with one bead of granulation at the end of dentils and beams. Another suggestion has been made that the development of the Moscow type rings is connected with the process of ethnic consolidation, which was taking place in Moscow region in 12th–13th centuries.