Многофигурная композиция в виде головы хищной птицы: новый образец скифского звериного стиля с территории Крыма
Multi-figure composition in the form of the head of a predatory bird: new sample of Scythian animal style from Crimea

Summary/Abstract: In The article describes the bronze plaque – part of the harness – executed in the Scythian animal style. The plaque was found in South-East Crimea. The author provides composition-iconographic, stylistic and plot analogies from the Forest- steppe and Steppe of Middle Dnieper, North Caucasus, South Urals, Lower Volga and West Kazakhstan. Based on analogies, the dating and plot-semantic interpretation of images are suggested. The author comes to the conclusion, that Crimean image must be seen in the context of relatively rare in Scythian animal style plot compositions, which translate not isolated figures of animals, but actions expressing certain mythological ideas.

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