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119,120 These figures and the two following are rendered in striking silhouette, the curvilinear designs within the body of the cock increasing the decorative effect. The elk is an animal one might expect to find in the art of the Altai, but the cock is an indication of foreign, probably Iranian influence. Elks, ornaments from a log sarcophagus. Leather, lengths 29 cm. (113/8 in.). Altai nomadic, 5th century B.C. Altai, Pazyryk, kurgan 2. Excavations of S. I. Rudenko, 1947. Hermitage, 1684/285, 283. Rudenko, Kultura Gornogo Altaya, p. 46, fig. 18. 121,122 Roosters, jug ornaments. Leather, heights 13.7 cm. (53/ in.). Altai nomadic, 5th century B.C. Altai, Pazyryk, kurgan 2. Excavations of S. I. Rudenko, 1947. Hermitage, 1684/56,57. Rudenko, Kultura Gornogo Altaya, p. 92, fig. 44. 123 126 Belt fragment decorated with roosters. Leather, length 53 cm. (207/8 in.). Altai nomadic, 5th century B.C. Altai, Pazyryk, kurgan 2. Excavations of S. I. Rudenko, 1947. Hermitage, 1684/241. Rudenko, Kultura Gornogo Altaya, p. 125, fig. 71. 124 Flagon with applied ornament. Leather, height 16.5 cm. (61/2 in.). Altai nomadic, 5th century B.C. Altai, Pazyryk, kurgan 2. Excavations of S. I. Rudenko, 1947. Hermitage, 1684/87. Rudenko, Kultura Gornogo Altaya, pi. XXIII. 125 Woman's boot. Leather, textile, tin (or pewter), gold, and pyrites, height 36 cm. (141/s in.). Altai nomadic, 5th century B.C. Altai, Pazyryk, kurgan 2. Excavations of S. I. Rudenko, 1947. Hermitage, 1684/218. Rudenko, Kultura Gornogo Altaya, pl. XXV, 2. 122 128 A theme much illustrated in nomadic art both in Siberia and around the Black Sea is that of a griffin slaying a stag. This superb example shows an abbreviated form of this subject, in which the heads of these animals stand for the whole. Griffin holding a stag's head, finial. Wood and leather, height 35 cm. (133J/ in.). Altai nomadic, 5th century B.C. Altai, Pazyryk, kurgan 2. Excavations of S. I. Rudenko, 1947. Hermitage, 1684/170. Rudenko, Kultura Gornogo Altaya, pl. LXXXIII, 1. 127 This wood and leather pole top, one of four, originally was covered with gold leaf to suggest a metal ornament. Stag, finial. Wood and leather, height 11.5 cm. (41/2 in.). Altai nomadic, 5th century, B.C. Altai, Pazyryk, kurgan 2. Excavations of S. I. Rudenko, 1947. Hermitage, 1684/154. Rudenko, Drevneyshie kovry i tkani, p. 28, fig. 15. 128 Goat's head and two geese, bridle frontlet. Horn, height 20.6 cm. (81/? in.). Altai nomadic, 5th century. Altai, Pazyryk, kurgan 2. Excavations of S. I. Rudenko, 1947. Hermitage, 1684/353. Rudenko, Kultura Gornogo Altaya, pl. C, 1. 125 123
129 Leather bridle ornamented with wooden plaques of mountain rams and a springing ram cheekpiece. Wood, leather, and gold, length 51 cm. (20in.). Altai nomadic, 5th century B.C. Altai, Pazyryk, kurgan 1. Excavations of M. P. Gryaznov, 1929. Hermitage, 1295/189. Rudenko, Kultura Gornogo Altaya, pl. XXXIV. 130 Leather bridle ornamented with wooden plaques of animals. Wood and leather, length 50 cm. (191116 in.). Altai nomadic, 5th century B.C. Altai, Pazyryk, kurgan 1. Excavations of M. P. Gryaznov, 1929. Hermitage, 1295/146. Rudenko, Kultura Gornogo Altaya, pl. XXXII. 131 Recumbent tiger, bridle plaque. Wood, length 3.3 cm. (11/ in.). Altai nomadic, 5th-4th century B.C. Altai, Pazyryk, kurgan 4. Excavations of S. I. Rudenko, 1948. Hermitage, 1686/68. Rudenko, Kultura Gornogo Altaya, p. 203, pl. LXIII, fig. 124. :I 1/ I ;t it, 126 K '*1 ^^A .. \ I ^ ' 132 Recumbent tiger, bridle plaque. Wood, length 3.3 cm. ( 1 /in.). Altai nomadic, 5th-4th century B.C. Altai, Pazyryk, kurgan 4. Excavatibns of S. I. Rudenko, 1948. Hermitage, 1686/69. Rudenko, Kultura Gornogo Altaya, pl. LXIII. 133 Bearded man, bridle plaque. Wood, height I1 cm. (43/8 in.). Altai nomadic, 5th century B.C. Altai, Pazyryk, kurgan 1. Excavations of M. P. Gryaznov, 1929. Hermitage, 1295/392. Rudenko, Kultura Gornogo Altaya, pl. XLIV. 133 i .111. : , 'Af ?I I V i 134,135 (Color plate 25) The expressively raised bridge of the nose and the heavy nostrils and lips indicate that these rather naturalistically carved wooden animal heads are those of elks. Traces of red paint are still visible; their antlers, however, are lost. The elk figures prominently in the art of the northern nomads; a possible reference to this might be Tacitus's mention of the twin gods Alci ("elks") in the land of the Naharvali, on the plains of what is now Poland. Elks' heads, bridle ornaments. Wood, lengths 9.9, 9.6 cm. (37/8, 33/ in.). Altai nomadic, 5th-4th century B.C. Altai, Pazyryk, kurgan 3. Excavations of S. I. Rudenko, 1948. Hermitage, 1685/146,147. Rudenko, Kultura Gornogo Altaya, pi. LII. , r 121
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