

Khalikov, 19, in the Archive of the Department of Archeology of the USSR Academy of Sciences ( IA AN SSSR). Leather quivers with hooks on straps attached to the bottom and iron loops in the form of brackets with two rivets (Plate 7, item 7) were found in burials 10, 33, 55, 75, 122, 143, 200, 212, 234, 235, 274, 277, and 313 in the Bol’she-Tarkhanskij burial ground. Almost no intact quivers from the 8th-9th centuries have survived, but in the graves of archers, we find many iron remnants: loops, buckles, and hooks (Plate 7, items 7-10). Wood and leather are poorly preserved in earth, and as a result, remnants of quivers are rarely found during excavations. The Eastern Slavs used the same kind of quivers, carrying them at the waist. Plate 1: Construction and names of the parts of a composite bow, quiver, and arrow head.ġ – the wooden foundation of a bow: а – ends with grooves for the string, б – tendons, в – birch wood, г – juniper wood, и – join of the ends, wood and tendons, к – join of the tendons and bone overlay for the bow gripĢ – a view of the wooden foundation of the bow from the inner side, and the layout for placing bone overlays: д – tip overlays with grooves for the string, в – side overlays for the grip, ж – lower overlays for the grip from the inner side of the bow ģ – layout for placing overlays on the bow (side view): д – tip overlays, е – side overlays, ж – lower overlays, и – join at the ends of the bow, к – join at the bow grip Ĥ – reinforcing the joins of the bow parts by winding on tendons with glue and wrapping the bow with birch bark: м – bundle (wound tendons), н – pasted-on birch bark ĥ – bow strung after being glued together Ħ – fragments of a composite bow, late 12th century, Novgorod ħ – cross-section of (6): а – birch bark wrapping, б – tendons, в – birch wood, г – juniper wood Ĩ – layout for iron brackets and finishings on 10th-century quivers ĩ – layout for bone hinge and decorative overlays on 8th-14th century quivers ġ0 – Names of the parts of iron arrowheads: а – head, б – socket, в – blade, г – stem, д – flange, е – neck, ж – warhead (for armor-piercing heads), и -facet, к – flange, л – point/tip, м – barb jeb: See Plate 1, items 8-9, for layouts of two types of Russian quiver. Arkheologicheskie pamjatniki enisejskikh kyrgyzov. “Drevnjaja istorija Juzhnoj Sibiri.” MIA. “Mogil’nik Kudyrge na Altae.” Materialy po etnografii. “O drevnikh pamjatnikakh izobrazitel’nogo iskusstva na Enisee.” Trudy XIV arkheologicheskogo s’ezda. “Skal’nye risunki Turgajskoj oblasti.” Trudy Gosudarstvennogo istoricheskogo muzeja (Trudy GIM). Quivers of similar form were widely used in antiquity among the tribes of Siberia and Central Asia.

Birch bark was rolled up into a cylinder and covered in leather. The most ancient quivers typically were cylindrical in shape and were made from birch bark, wood, or leather. 72, plate I, items 3 and 26 plate XIII, item 2. “Gljadenovskoe kostische.” Trudy Permskoj uchenoj arkhivnoj komissii. “Izdelija iz dereva v kurganakh Suslovskogo kurgannogo mogil’nika.” Uchenye zapiski Saratovskogo universiteta.

“Sulovskij kurgannyj mogil’nik.” Uchenye zapiski Saratovskogo universiteta. Tur’i.” Otchet Arkheologicheskoj komissii (OAK) za 1908. v 1908 g.” Izvestija arkheologicheskoj komissii (IAK). “Arkheologicheskie issledovanija Zavolzhskogo otrjada (1951-1953 gg.)” Materialy i issledovanija po arkheologii SSSR (MIA), 1959 (60), p. Its use amongst the tribes of Eastern Europe can be traced back to the 11th century BCE. The quiver was a case for storing and carrying arrows. [The book in the original Russian can be found here: “Kolchan i Naluch’e.” Ruchnoe metatel’noe oruzhie (luk i strely, samostrel): VIII-XIV vv. One of the chapters, which I’ve translated below, was devoted to quivers and bow-cases, which provided a lot of source material as well as links to other articles that I could use for my project!Ī translation of Медведев, А.Ф. Medvedev that was completely devoted to archery in Rus’ in the 13th-14th centuries, based on archeological finds and other data.

But, I was lucky enough to come upon a book by A.F. Although a number of Rus’ manuscripts show archers and crossbowmen, I was having difficulty finding any that included a picture of their quiver. I was starting to work on a quiver for my crossbow bolts, and found this book while trying to locate information on what I discovered was a rather esoteric topic of medieval Russian quivers.
