Saturday, April 8, 2017

Gold of the Scythians in Tuva

Scythian mounds in the territory of Tuva are a whole century older than the same burial mounds in the Northern Black Sea region.Digging the royal burial mound Arzhan-2, archaeologists have extracted gold ornaments in weight of 26 kg - today they make a unique collection of Scythian gold of the Tuva National Museum.These are unique products of masters who lived in the 7th centuries BC.
Schemes of the barrow "Arzhaan 2"







Reconstruction of Scythian clothes


 Gold beads for making fabric of royal pants consist of strings of gold foil with diameters of 1 mm strung on the finest fibers.


 Grivna of the King

 Fragment from the king's grivna

Ornaments of the headdress of the king



Dagger






Pectoral of the Queen

 Hairpin

Belt buckle


 Earrings of the queen



Hairpins for the Queen



Ladle

A cup that is suspended to the waist

The bronze panther

Plaques in the form of a panther



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