Galich Treasure
Galich Treasure
a hidden collection of copper artifacts used for religious purposes (c. 13th century B.C.), found in 1835 near the city of Galich, present-day Kostroma Oblast. It contained copper figurines of males (a sun god and a moon god), figures of lizards, an ax, a dagger, knives, and bracelets. A hunting and fishing campsite with hollowed and ridged ceramics, a copper knife, and stone tools was discovered at the same time near the Galich treasure (excavations by V. A. Gorodtsov in 1924).
REFERENCES
“Galichskii klad.” Zapiski Otdeleniia Russkoi i Slavianskoi Arkheologii Arkheologicheskogo obshchestva, 1903, vol. 5, issue 1.Foss, M. E. “Novye pamiatniki v raione galichskoi kul’tury.” In the collection Kratkie soobshcheniia Instituta istorii material’noi kul’tury, 1947, issue 17.