{"id":40381,"date":"2026-08-03T15:31:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T13:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mnk.pl\/tracing-early-9th-century-islamic-silver-flows-new-evidence-from-tsarino-mayaki-on-the-donets-river-ukraine-sledzenie-naplywow-islamskiego-srebra-na-poczatku-ix-wieku-nowe-dowody-z-tsarino-may\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T10:51:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T08:51:28","slug":"tracing-early-9th-century-islamic-silver-flows-new-evidence-from-tsarino-mayaki-on-the-donets-river-ukraine-sledzenie-naplywow-islamskiego-srebra-na-poczatku-ix-wieku-nowe-dowody-z-tsarino-may","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mnk.pl\/en\/tracing-early-9th-century-islamic-silver-flows-new-evidence-from-tsarino-mayaki-on-the-donets-river-ukraine-sledzenie-naplywow-islamskiego-srebra-na-poczatku-ix-wieku-nowe-dowody-z-tsarino-may\/","title":{"rendered":"Tracing Early 9th-Century Islamic Silver Flows: New Evidence from Tsarino (Mayaki) on the Donets River, Ukraine \/ \u015aledzenie nap\u0142yw\u00f3w islamskiego srebra na pocz\u0105tku IX wieku: nowe dowody z Tsarino (Mayaki) nad Do\u0144cem, Ukraina"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Stepan Stepanenko, Leibniz-Zentrum f\u00fcr Arch\u00e4ologie;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Membre associ\u00e9, CNRS UMR 8167<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ORCID: 0000-0003-1598-0032<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eric Ollivier, College de France missions in the Middle East and Central Asia, Paris<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ORCID: 0000-0001-8212-6464<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hennadii Svystun, Municipal Establishment \u201cKharkiv Humanitarian-Pedagogical<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Academy\u201d of the Kharkiv Regional Council<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ORCID: 0000-0001-7446-0809<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ievheniia Kaluhina, Municipal Institution \u201cSloviansk Museum of Local History\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ORCID: 0009-0004-7317-4738<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tracing Early 9th-Century Islamic Silver Flows: New Evidence from Tsarino (Mayaki) on the Donets River, Ukraine<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Abstract: <\/strong>This article publishes and contextualises a dirham hoard recovered from the Tsarino (Mayaki) hillfort on the middle Siverskyi Donets (Donetsk oblast, Ukraine). The deposit was identified in 2015 during recovery work connected with Second World War remains, in an eroded section of terrain exposing redeposited archaeological strata, which limits precise reconstruction of the original deposition context. The assemblage has a terminus post quem of AH 195\/AD 810\u2013811 and belongs to the first major wave of Islamic silver movement into eastern Europe. Numismatic composition is dominated by \u02bdAbb\u0101sid issues, with a pronounced Maghrebi component (ca. 27%) and a mint distribution consistent with early 9th-century routes operating through Khazar-controlled or Khazar-associated interfaces north of the Caucasus. The hoard is assessed against longstanding historiographic debates on the Donets hillforts, variously interpreted as a linear frontier chain or as locally grounded fortified districts responding to shifting security conditions. The paper argues that the Tsarino hoard supports an understanding of the Donets corridor as a contact zone where crossings, settlement systems, and long-distance exchange intersected prior to the mid-9th-century escalation of steppe conflict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Key words: <\/strong>Islamic coinage, medieval trade, medieval economy, Saltiv-Mayaki culture, Ukrainian archaeology<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DOI:<\/strong> https:\/\/doi.org\/10.52800\/ajst.1.20.a8<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stepanenko, S., Ollivier, E., Svystun, H. and Kaluhina, I. 2025. \u201cTracing Early 9th-Century Islamic Silver Flows: New Evidence from Tsarino (Mayaki) on the Donets River, Ukraine\u201d, Notae Numismaticae \u2013 Zapiski Numizmatyczne<\/em> 20: 147\u2013198. DOI: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.52800\/ajst.1.20.a8<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Stepan Stepanenko, Leibniz-Zentrum f\u00fcr Arch\u00e4ologie; Membre associ\u00e9, CNRS UMR 8167 ORCID: 0000-0003-1598-0032 Eric Ollivier, College de France missions in the Middle East and Central Asia, Paris ORCID: 0000-0001-8212-6464 Hennadii Svystun, Municipal Establishment \u201cKharkiv Humanitarian-Pedagogical Academy\u201d of the Kharkiv Regional Council ORCID: 0000-0001-7446-0809 Ievheniia Kaluhina, Municipal Institution \u201cSloviansk Museum of Local History\u201d ORCID: 0009-0004-7317-4738 Tracing Early […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-40381","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mnk.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mnk.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mnk.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnk.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnk.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mnk.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40383,"href":"https:\/\/mnk.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40381\/revisions\/40383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mnk.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}