Silver set for drinking wine was found by archaeologists in one of the burial mounds of Novo-Alexandrovka I in 1977. The main tomb of the buried warrior was devastated. But the graverobbers did not find a hiding place — in ancient times they would be arrange away from the main burial place or in a niche beside the grave. There was a silver bowl, three phials, a ladle, a bucket with a strainer, covered with a lutherion — a low wide vessel for mixing water with wine. Scientists were unable to specify where the set was made. It might have been made in the East Roman provinces.

Three phials have the form of low, wide open bowls. The medallions on them are made of silver plate.

There are two signs on this phial, reminiscent of a family seal or mark. One of them belonged to Aspurgus, the ruler of the Bosporan Kingdom in the first century A.D. He ruled during the years of 14 to 37 A.D. It is possible that it was Aspurgus who gave the silverware set to a nobleman of nomads.

The service also includes a hemispherically shaped, round-bottomed, unornamented bowl, which is more massive than the patterned bowl. The set is completed with a wine strainer and a ladle for pouring the beverage. It has a long handle in the form of a stylized image of a predatory bird with a curved beak and wings folded.