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40 Recumbent stag, plaque. Gold, length 4.3 cm. (1% in.). Scythian, 6th century B.C. Ukrainian SSR, Kiev region, Chigirin district, Goryachevo, kurgan 407. Excavations of A. A. Bobrinsky, 1903. Hermitage, Dn 1903, 9/61. A. A. Bobrinsky, "Otchet o raskopkakh, proizvedennykh v 1903 g v Chigirinskom uezde Kievskoy gubernii," IAK (1905), issue 14, pp. 1-43, fig. 79. 41 Recumbent elk on a bird's-leg pedestal, plaque. Bronze, height 10.1 cm. (4 in.). Kiev region, Zhurovka, kurgan G. Hermitage, Dn 1903, 11/7. Artamonov, Splendor, pl. 76. 42 Panther lying on a horseshoe-shaped object, plaque. Bronze, height 7 cm. (23 in.). Kiev region, Zhurovka, kurgan G. Hermitage, Dn 1903, 11/1. Artamonov, Splendor, pl. 77. I .i. 43 45 Cheekpiece decorated with animal heads. Bone, length 16.5 cm. (6?2 in.). Scythian, 6th century B.C. Sula river basin, Sumy district, Velikiye Budki village, kurgan 478. Excavations of N. E. Brandenburg, 1901. Hermitage, Dn 1932, 18/14. Unpublished. 44 Cheekpiece decorated with a horse's head. Bone, length 16 cm. (64 in.). Scythian, 6th century B.C. Sula river basin, Sumy district, Velikiye Budki village, kurgan 477. Excavations of N. E. Brandenburg, 1901. Hermitage, Dn 1932, 17/7. Unpublished. 43 44 Mirror with a panther at the end of the handle. Bronze, length 33.5 cm. (133%r in.). Scythian, 6th century B.C. North Caucasus, Stavropol region. Chance find, 1885. Hermitage, Ku 1885, 1/1. Smirnova, Domansky, Drevnee iskusstvo, pl. 38. *., a,i:
46 The volute-krater was a Laconian invention and the shape is known both in terracotta and bronze. In Greek bronze vessels the handles, the foot, and sometimes the rim were cast, while the body was hammered ("raised") from sheet metal. In contrast to other shapes like the hydria, relatively few bronze volute- kraters have survived. Often the hammered walls of the body disintegrated, leaving only the cast portions; parts of the krater from which this handle comes are in Odessa. Volute-krater handle with the figure of a gorgon and snakes. Bronze, height 16 cm. (65/6 in.). Greek, 6th century B.C. Dnieper region, Kirovograd district, Martonosha village. Chance find, 1870. Hermitage, Dn 1870, 1/1. Artamonov, Splendor, pl. 67. 47 Curled-up predatory animal with a goat and bird's head decorating its body, bridle plaque. Bronze, length 10.5 cm. (4Y8 in.). Scythian, beginning of the 5th century. Crimea, Kulakovsky kurgan 2. Excavations of J. A. Kulakovsky, 1895. Hermitage, Cr 1895, 10/2. Artamonov, Splendor, pl. 78. 48 (Color plate 11) A winged panther has jumped on the back of a seated goat. The ornaments-the egg and dart pattern above, and a stylized lotus below-are common in Greek art, but winged panthers are rare, as is the docile goat. A silver cup found in this kurgan depicts a seated Nike and allows us to date the burial sometime after 470 B.C. Winged feline attacking a goat, curved triangular plaque from a wooden rhyton. Gold, height 9.8 cm. (313/16 in.). Scythian, showing Iranian influence, 5th century B.C. Taman, Seven Brothers, kurgan 4. Excavations of V. G. Tiesenhausen, 1876. Hermitage, SBr IV, 5. Artamonov, Splendor, pl. 116. 49 Senmurv (mythical Iranian animal), curved triangular plaque from a wooden rhyton. Gold, height 8.3 cm. (33, in.). Scythian, showing Iranian influence, 5th century B.C. Taman, Seven Brothers, kurgan 4. Excavations of V. G. Tiesenhausen, 1876. Hermitage, SBr IV, 8. Artamonov, Splendor, pi. 121. 50 Recumbent stag looking backward, bridle plaque. Bronze, length 4.7 cm. (1%/8 in.). Scythian, 5th century B.C. Taman, Seven Brothers, kurgan 4. Excavations of V. G. Tiesenhausen, 1876. Hermitage, SBr IV, 38. Artamonov, Splendor, pl. 130. 51 (Color plate 9) These small ornaments, intended to be fastened to clothing as shown by the attachment holes, are rather coarse adaptations of standard Greek motifs. The male head with the horns of a bull represents Acheloos; the winged boar is known from coins of Clazomenae (a Greek town in Anatolia); the owl, sacred to Athens, is a standard device of Athenian coins. Ram's head, standing lion, bull's head, head of a bearded man with horns and bovine ears, owl, rooster, and protome of a winged boar: clothing ornament plaques. Gold, heights 3.3-1.9 cm. (15/6-3 in.). Scythian, showing Greek influence, 5th century B.C. Taman, Seven Brothers, kurgan 2. Excavations of V. G. Tiesenhausen, 1875. Hermitage, SBr II, 1-5, 9,22. Artamonov, Splendor, figs. 48, 43, 44, 46, 50, 47, 49. 50 105
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