Scythian Culture - Preservation of The Frozen Tombs of The Altai Mountains (UNESCO)

Front cover Terminal:
Stag on a Ball.
Leather, wood; carved.
H. 11.5 cm. Pazyryk
Culture. 5 th century bc.
Inv. no. 1684/154.
© The State Hermitage
Museum, St. Petersburg.
Frontispiece Plaque
from a Horse Harness,
with an Eagle. Wood;
carved. 3,6 x 4,6 cm.
Pazyryk Culture.
6 th century bc.
Inv. no. 2179/131.
© The State Hermitage
Museum, St. Petersburg.
Title page Pazyryk
Culture horse-harness
decoration in the form
of a carved wooden
vulture. Ak-Alakha-1
necropolis, excavated
by N. V. Polosmak.
© V. Molodin
Last page Plaque
Shaped Like an Eagle
Gold; stamped.
1.7 x 2 cm.
Pazyryk Culture.
6 th century bc.
Inv. no. 2824/1.
© The State Hermitage
Museum, St. Petersburg.
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