Catalogue - Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Bird's head with a volute-shaped beak, bridle
plaque. Bronze, length 9 cm. (31/2 in.).
Taman, Seven Brothers, kurgan 2.
Hermitage, SBr II, 55.
Artamonov, Splendor, pl. 115.
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Sitting bird, cheekpiece plaque. Bronze,
length 12.1 cm. (43/ in.).
Taman, Seven Brothers, kurgan 3.
Hermitage, SBr III, 20.
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Recumbent stag, plaque from a wooden
vessel. Gold, height 7.1 cm. (23/ in.).
Scythian, 5th century B.C. Crimea, kurgan
near Kara-Merket village, near Ak-Mechet
bay. Chance find, 1885. Hermitage, Cr 1885,
1/1.
Artamonov, Splendor, pl. 72.
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Bird with outstretched wings, plaque.
Bronze, height 6.6 cm. (27/6 in. ).
Crimea, near Simferopol, Golden kurgan.
Hermitage, Cr 1890, 1/28.
Artamonov, Splendor, pl. 74.
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Bird's head, bridle plaque. Bronze, length
4.1cm. (1%in.).
Scythian, middle of the 5th century B.C.
Crimea, Kerch peninsula, Geroyevskoye
village, necropolis of the Nymphaeum,
horse burial, kurgan 24. Excavations of
A. E. Lyutsenko, 1876. Hermitage,
GK-N 118.
Artamonov, Splendor, pi. 92.
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Lion's head, plaque. Bronze, height 7.5 cm.
(215/6 in.).
Crimea, Kerch peninsula, Geroyevskoye
village, necropolis of the Nymphaeum,
kurgan 32. Hermitage, GK-N 57.
Artamonov, Splendor, fig. 40.
Curled-up lion, openwork bridle plaque.
Bronze, diameter 6.1 cm. (2% in.).
Scythian, second half of the 5th century B.C.
Crimea, near Kerch, Cape Ak-Burun,
kurgan 5. Excavations of A. E. Lyutsenko,
1862. Hermitage, AkB 6.
Unpublished.
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Cross-shaped plaque. Bronze, height 11.2 cm.
(4% in.).
Olbia. Hermitage, 01 3023.
Artamonov, Splendor, fig. 34.
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