Achaemenid Goldware

Achaemenid and Achaemenid-inspired
Goldware and Silverware, Jewellery

and Arms and their Imitations to the
North of the Achaemenid Empire*
Mikhail Treister
1. Introduction
Some recent studies devoted to the history of the Kingdom of Bosporus advance a thesis about the political independence of the early Bosporan Kingdom
from the Achaemenid Empire, primarily based on the passage by Diodoros
about the rule of Archaenactidae, placed in the chapter devoted to events in
Asia.1
Yet it has been argued that the passage in Diodoros about the events of 438
in Cimmerian Bosporus gives no direct proof of any prior independence from
the Achaemenids.2 A range of material has been presented as indirect evidence
for contacts between the Achaemenid Empire and the north Pontic area and
the concomitant influence on the historical development of that region:3 the
Achaemenid seals found in Bosporus,4 the impression of an Achaemenid seal
on a clay weight from Olbia,5 the supposed connection between the Bosporan
and Persian weight systems, the parallels between some coin emblems of the
Bosporus and Olbia and Achaemenid symbols,6 not to mention the distribution of Iranian names in the onomasticon of Olbia and the Bosporus.7
This paper dwells on the finds of Achaemenid silverware and goldware,
arms and jewellery in the vast areas outside the northern frontier of the Achaemenid Empire. I will characterize the objects which may be determined as
Achaemenid or Achaemenid-inspired or imitations of objects of the first
two categories, and dwell on the problems of their dating and the possibility of their attribution to certain local centres within the the wider so-called
Achaemenid international style.8
2. Analysis of objects from the north Pontic area

2.1. A rhyton from the Seven Brothers barrow no. 4
Among the five rhyta found in the Seven Brothers barrows,9 from barrow no. 4
came a silver rhyton with an ibex protome with a horizontally-fluted horn and
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incised decoration (Fig. 1).10 The rhyton is traditionally considered to be the

product of an Achaemenid workshop located in Iran and is dated to the fifth
century BC. Oscar Muscarella11 compares it with four other rhyta, including
that with a bull protome from Borovo in Thrace,12 a rhyton on the antiquities
market,13 that to his mind seems to be a mate to the Seven Brothers rhyton,
another one without provenance in the form of the full body of a ram and
a vessel terminating in the forepart of a ram, supposedly from Kappadokia,
once in the Norbert Schimmel Collection and now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.14 Muscarella suggests that these vessels were manufactured in
the same or a closely-connected workshop, although it is difficult to define
a location.15 Another rhyton of this group, 18.7cm high, was sold in 2001 at
Sothebys in New York.16
The protome of an ibex with outstretched front legs and with a spout for
pouring wine, of unknown origin, is held in the Reza Abbasi Museum in Tehran.17 Figures of ibexes were also used as vessel handles, for instance on a
silver amphora with horizontal fluting from Hamadan18 and in the case of the
sculpted handles with lower attachments in the form of Silen masks in Berlin
(allegedly from Erzincan)19 and Paris.20 A gold terminal of a bracelet or torque
said to come from the Sardis area, once in Berlin, is also comparable in style.21
The treatment of the lotus-and-palmette chain, including the horizontal
ties at the base of the palmettes as well as the use of the guilloche pattern,
puts the decoration of the upper part of the horn of the Seven Brothers rhyton
(Fig. 2) close to that of the silver-gilt amphora-rhyton with sculpted handles
from Kukova Mogila near Duvanli in Thrace, dated to the third quarter of the
fifth century BC;22 the above-mentioned rhyton supposedly from Kappadokia,
now in New York;23 a silver rhyton in the form of the head of an ibex from Siberia, kept in the State Hermitage Museum;24 as well as the skyphos from the
former collection of Hagop Kevorkian, now in the Metropolitan Museum of
Art.25 The shape of the latter finds its closest parallel in the bronze vessel from
tomb no. 723 in Sardis, dated to the seventh to sixth century BC,26 although
there are variations in the details of the treatment of the palmettes and lotus
flowers and the latter are connected with arcs composed not of parallel lines
but of dots. One should also mention a similar lotus-and-palmette chain on a
silver flat-bottomed horizontally-fluted beaker in the British Museum,27 which
belongs to a class of vessels shown in the hands of the members of Delegation
XII, the Ionians, on the relief of the east side of the Apadana in Persepolis,28
and not only Delegation XV, allegedly the Arachosians, the latter mentioned
by M. Vickers,29 as well as represented by the real finds in burial no. 6/1961
in Vani30 and allegedly from Erzerum.31
These ornamental friezes differ in style from the lotus-and-palmette chain
without guilloche pattern decorating the lip of the gold rhyton with lion
protome from Hamadan, dated to the first half of the fifth century BC,32 or
the frieze of palmettes and lotus flowers on the rhyton with the protome of a
winged griffin from Erzincan in eastern Anatolia.33 However, a similar deco-
Achaemenid and Achaemenid-inspired Goldware and Silverware
Fig. 1. A silver rhyton from the Seven Brothers barrow no. 4. State Hermitage, inv. SBr
IV.3 (photo after Cat. St Petersburg 2004, no. 4).
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Fig. 2. A silver rhyton from the Seven Brothers barrow no. 4. State Hermitage, inv. SBr
IV.3 Details (photo after Vlasova 2001a, 21, fig. 1, 23, fig. 3).
rative pattern, the lotus-and-palmette chain, occurs on a wall decoration in

glazed bricks from Susa,34 as well as on a silver-gilt bowl from the so-called
second part of the Oxus Treasure35 and some other examples without provenance, such as a silver hemispherical bowl with gold appliqus in the Miho
Museum.36
The vessel from Kukova Mogila, given its characteristic shape, belongs to
a class of vessels represented both by actual finds and depicted on the reliefs
from Persepolis.37 The amphora-rhyton from Kukova Mogila is generally recognized as being executed in a purely Achaemenid style.38 Another, once in
a private collection in Paris, originates supposedly from the region between
Sinop and Trabzon.39 A third, in the G. Ortiz Collection in Geneva comes from
a treasure found in about 1970 in the area of Sinop.40 It is worth noting that
vessels of a similar shape are shown in the hands of the members of Delegation VI, the Lydians,41 and Delegation III, the Armenians.42 According to B.
Filow,43 the depiction of similar vessels in the hands of members of different
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delegations points to the fact that they were not regional types, but rather
belonged to the type adopted by the Achaemenid court, and they could have
been manufactured in workshops situated on the coasts of Asia Minor.44 Also,
the analysis of the shape and the decoration of amphora-rhyta conducted by
M. Pfrommer, gave him grounds to suggest that both the vessel from Kukova
Mogila and those in the J. Paul Getty Museum were the products of a workshop in Asia Minor, probably located at the court of one of the satraps.45
If the lotus-and-palmette chain on the Seven Brothers rhyton cannot provide decisive confirmation about the place of its manufacture, the treatment
of the locks of hair on the neck and manes of the ibex protome (Fig. 2) can
offer assistance. Their closest parallels appear on the images of double-ibex
protomes over winged sun disks on a silver phiale from Usak, eastern Lydia,46
and on a similar bronze phiale from nye,47 both now in Ankara, as well as on
the figures of animals on the handles of the above-mentioned amphora-rhyta
from Kukova Mogila and from the treasure found near Sinop, now in the G.
Ortiz Collection.48 Among the Achaemenid-style rhyta, the closest parallel
is on the damaged silver rhyton with calf protome, a 1965 chance find from
an early Sarmatian barrow near the village of Dolinnoe in the southern Ural
area.49
Thus, it seems that we can tentatively identify the rhyton from the Seven
Brothers barrow no. 4 (Figs. 1, 2) as a product of this Asia Minor workshop
and suggest a date for its manufacture within the first half, most probably
the second quarter, of the fifth century BC. Such a date corresponds well with
the dating of the burial in the fourth barrow to ca. 450-425 BC.50
I therefore cannot agree with Muscarella that all the rhyta which he mentions as parallels to the Seven Brothers rhyton may have been manufactured
in one and the same workshop. Not only does the much larger scale distinguish the Seven Brothers rhyton from the objects cited above; also, its manner of construction is idiosyncratic. A muff, decorated with filigree and large
hemispherical umbos, covers the junction of terminal and horn; the technique
is paralleled on no certainly Achaemenid rhyton.
2.2. A sword from the Chertomlyk barrow
A sword found in the Chertomlyk barrow has a hilt with gold overlay, decorated in the Achaemenid style,51 which differs from the gold overlay of the
scabbard,52 executed in the so-called Graeco-Scythian style and probably representing either scenes of the Trojan War or an episode from the battle between
Macedonians and Persians (Fig. 3).53 Besides this discrepancy, it is stated that
the sword has a blade untypical for Achaemenid swords: the upper part has
a row of rectangular openings along the axis. .V. Chernenko mentions that
such open-worked blades are characteristic solely of swords originating from
Scythian barrows of the fourth century BC.54 Analysis of the decoration of
the hilt of the Chertomlyk sword led .Ju. Alekseev and E.V. Chernenko too
date it to the fifth century, or even to the late sixth to early fifth century BC,
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Fig. 3. A sword from the Chertomlyk barrow and the main elements of its decoration. State
Hermitage, inv. Dn 1863 1/448 (photo after Cat. New York 2000, no. 163).
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and to identify it as an Achaemenid product.55 V.G. Lukonin dated it to the

fifth century BC, suggesting that the hilt overlay was hammered by a Median
toreut.56 The suggestion57 that an originally Achaemenid sword was reworked
in Scythia in the fourth century BC is indirectly proved by the technological
observations made by R.S. Minasyan. Minasyan has, however, stated that the
final proof concerning the secondary use of the swords hilt may be reached
only after study of the inner surface, up to now unavailable for examination.58
Several discrete elements of the decoration of the hilt of the Chertomlyk
sword deserve fuller discussion: (1) a finial in the form of two antithetic bull
heads; (2) a palmette, decorating the finial; (3) a palm-tree pattern, decorating the vertical axis of the hilt; (4) the figures of mounted archers galloping
to the left and right and the ibexes wounded with arrows decorating the side
friezes of the hilt.
The motif of double-animal protomes, including those of bulls, was widespread in both Achaemenid sculpture and decorative art. An important parallel with the finial of the hilt of the Chertomlyk sword is the use of a similarly
shaped palmette on a double-bull column capital excavated by W.K. Loftus
in 1850-1852 from the palace of Dareios at Susa.59 That this motif was used
for the decoration of the pommels of Achaemenid swords is testified not only
by the gold dagger said to be from Hamadan decorated with double lion
heads,60 but also by an ivory pommel with double rams heads in the Louvre,
the provenance of which is unknown.61
The stylized palm tree, very similar to the central band, decorating the
hilt, was used in the decoration of the western faade of the west staircase of
the palace of Dareios (tachara) at Persepolis; the evidence of the inscription
suggests that the reliefs were probably added in the reign of Artaxerxes III
(359-338 BC).62 It also appears on a stone relief showing a winged sphinx from
Persepolis, originally set up on a faade of palace G, constructed by Artaxerxes
III, and later transferred to the north staircase of palace H.63
Others have already mentioned the parallels to the representations of
mounted archers and ibexes,64 including that with images of riders in a hunting scene on the umbo from the Oxus Treasure, which is usually dated within
the fifth to fourth centuries BC.65
On the whole, analysis of the parallels to the decorative elements does not
allow a precise dating for the sword. The parallels range from the last decades
of the sixth to the mid-fourth century BC. The shape of the cross-guard, characteristic of akinakai of the seventh to sixth and early fifth centuries,66 speaks
rather for an early date. At the same time, the central frieze of the hilt with the
image of the palm tree finds rather similar parallels on the reliefs from Persepolis dating to the rule of Artaxerxes III, i.e. to the mid-fourth century BC.
2.3. Imitations of Achaemenid silverware. A silver rhyton from Kul-Oba
A silver rhyton with horizontal fluting and with a protome of a recumbent
ram (Fig. 4) was found in the Kul-Oba barrow near Kerch in eastern Crimea.67
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Fig. 4. A silver rhyton from Kul-Oba. State Hermitage, inv. KO 104 (photo after Cat. New
York 2000, no. 147).
Although its shape and the horizontal fluting of the horn correspond to those
of Achaemenid rhyta, the treatment of the protome, decorated with circles with
dots inside, is not characteristic of Achaemenid rhyta. Rather, it finds parallels
on items of the Graeco-Scythian style,68 for instance, on a gold overlay with
images of two rams from the Scythian barrow of the mid-fourth century BC
in Gajmanova Mogila.69 Thus, the rhyton from Kul-Oba should be considered
as a local Bosporan imitation of rhyta of Achaemenid type.
2.4. Objects of the Achaemenid circle
Deep Achaemenid bowls from the Solokha and Zhirnyj barrows. Phiale from
the tumulus on Mount Zelenskaja
A.Yu. Alekseev attributes to the items made in the so-called Graeco-Achaemenid tradition a set of horse bridle found in an individual horse grave
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of the Alexandropol barrow, including a frontlet in the form of a sculpted

horse head with a characteristic vertical bun on the head, untypical for Scythian horses, but having parallels in items of Achaemenid toreutic.70 Actually,
Alekseev does not provide examples of such treatment of horse hair in metalwork. Except for similar buns on the heads of winged horses, for example the
handles of a silver amphora-rhyton of unknown provenance, now in Berlin,71
the closest parallel of which I know is the rendering of the horse hair on the
gold earrings72 from the so-called Akhalgori Treasure found in the late 19th
century in the territory of modern southern Ossetia,73 but this is now considered to date to the second half of the fourth to the early third century BC.74 At
the same time, stylistically, the treatment of the horse heads on the earrings
from Akhalgori, being most probably an example of Colchian workmanship
in an Achaemenidizing style, have nothing to do with the frontlet from the
Alexandropol barrow. Similar treatment of horse hair is also seen on the earrings with pendants from Vani burial no. 6/1961; the earrings are examples
of Colchian goldwork of the fifth to the first half of the fourth century BC.75
However, the attribution seems to be arguable, especially given the parallels
both in form and decoration with gold and silver frontlets from the Thracian
tumuli of the second half of the fourth century BC.76
We can discusss with much more certitude the bronze phialae from the
central burial of the Solokha barrow77 and from the destroyed burial of the
Zhirnyj (Fat)78 barrow near Stanitsa Temizhbekovskaja in the Kuban valley
as examples of metalware of the Achaemenid circle: they belong to the group of
the so-called deep Achaemenid bowls which originate primarily from Egypt,
Iran, Syria and Cyprus.79 On the basis of proportions, Pfrommer dates the
bowl from Solokha (Fig. 5) as early as the first half of the fifth century BC,80
which seems not to be substantially grounded. In its shape and proportions it
is rather similar to a silver bowl from Gezer.81 The bowl from Zhirnyj barrow
(Fig. 6), which M. Pfrommer does not discuss, finds closest parallels among
the silver bowls from Raduvene in Thrace.82 Another close parallel is a bronze
bowl found in the Lycian necropolis of Karaalli near Antalya, dated to the
first quarter of the fourth century BC.83 Its shape and proportions may also
be compared with those of the silver bowls from Erzincan, although the latter
are much larger in dimension.84
A silver phiale from tomb no. 3 in the barrow on Mount Zelenskaja on the
Taman peninsula (Fig. 7), with flaring offset rim and decorated in the lower
round-bottomed part with numerous petals,85 belongs to the type Flache
Schale mit gerade verlaufender Wandung und ausladendem Rand (after
Abkai-Khavari). It finds parallels in tomb B at Derveni in Macedonia,86 in the
Naip tumulus in southeastern Thrace87, in Prusias in Bithynia (reportedly)88
and in the burial on the acropolis of Susa.89 A similar mid-fourth century BC
phiale comes from Acarnania.90 All these phialae are decorated with pointed
leaves, not with petals, thus, they are often designated as leaf phiale, a type
derived from Achaemenid fluted phialae of the fifth century and known in
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Fig. 5. A bronze bowl from the central burial of Solokha. State Hermitage, inv. Dn 1912
1/54 (photo after Mantsevich 1987, 39, no. 12).
Greece by the early fourth century.91 M. Pfrommer92 maintains that the phiale
from the Zelenskoi tumulus is executed in the late Achaemenid tradition
and he compares it with the pre-Ptolemaic phiale from the Tuch el-Karamus
Treasure. Indeed, the shape of the Tuch el-Karamus phiale93 is similar to that
of the Zelenskoi phiale. Among the phialae from Tuch el-Karamus, a vessel
with similar petalled decoration should be mentioned.94 Petalled decoration
is seen on a bronze phiale from Ur, with a very similar profile,95 on a silver
phiale from the Oxus Treasure96 and more often on some silver bowls of similar shape from Thrace.97
3. Achaemenid objects and earlier Near Eastern finds in the north Pontic area
Thus, the six finds discussed above are the only examples of: (a) toreutics of
Achaemenid style (the handle of the Chertomlyk sword); (b) Achaemenidinspired objects (the rhyton from the Seven Brothers barrow no. 4, the bowls
from the Solokha, Zhirnyj and Zelenskoj barrows); and (c) imitations of the
Achaemenid style (the rhyton from Kul-Oba) found in the north Pontic area.
Their volume is much less than the number of Near Eastern toreutic items
of the eighth to seventh century BC found in the Kelermes barrows in the
Kuban area. The Near Eastern imports are primarily details of furniture and
utensils, which were most probably used by the Scythians in a way other
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Fig. 6. A bronze bowl from Zhirnyj barrow near Stanitsa Temizhbekovskaja. Krasnodar
Museum (photo after Anfimov 1966, 22, fig. 5).
than originally intended. The majority of the other toreutic items found in
the Kelermes barrows, arms (a sword, a ceremonial axe, decorative plates of
shields and quivers), vessels (a bowl and rhyta) and a mirror, were rather
items of Urartian, Iranian and Asia Minor origin made for Scythian customers98 in the second to third quarters of the seventh century BC.99 According to
L.K. Galanina, several such workshops could have existed in the Near East.100
However, repeated stylistic elements on the items, executed in various artistic
traditions,101 rather speak in favour of a single workshop, in which craftsmen of various origins could have worked together. Perhaps, this Scythian
workshop, uniting toreuts from Urartu, Iran, Lydia and Ionia, could have
operated at the headquarters of the Scythian kings during their raids in the
Near East, although the suggestion of the possible location of this workshop
at the Scythian headquarters in the Kuban area has also been raised.102
In addition, fragmentary silver rhyta of the late seventh to early sixth
century BC, most probably of the pre-Achaemenid period, were found in the
early Scythian barrows in the Don area (Krivorozhe)103 and the forest-steppe
of Ukraine (Ljubotin barrow no. 2).104 They originally looked similar to the
rhyta from Marash in Syria105 and Filippovka in southern Ural.106
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Fig. 7. A silver phiale from the barrow on Mount Zelenskaja, tomb no. 3. State Hermitage,
inv. Zel. 36 (photo Institute of History of Material Culture, St Petersburg, photoarchive,
negative no. 15204).
4. Patterns of distribution of Achaemenid finds

4.1. The Black Sea area and Caucasus
Another question concerns the various patterns of distribution of Achaemenid finds. The rhyton with a winged-ibex protome, which may be attributed
to an Asia Minor workshop, worked in the Achaemenid style in the second
quarter of the fifth century BC, is the only item executed in this style found
in the rich burial of the Seven Brothers barrow no. 4. The barrow is dated to
the middle to the third quarter of the fifth century, and yielded both toreutic
items of supposedly Attic workmanship, a silver cup with gilded engraved
images (Nike sitting on a stool with carved legs)107 dated to ca. 470 BC, and
items of local Bosporan workshops, including other rhyta.108 Similar toreutic
items worked in the Achaemenid style are represented, for instance, by the
above-mentioned amphora-rhyton from Kukova Mogila in Thrace,109 whose
burial110 is more or less synchronous to that of the Seven Brothers barrow no.
4, or the rhyton with a bull protome111 from the so-called Borovo Treasure of
the first half of the fourth century BC.112
It is worth noting that the small quantity of toreutic items in the Achaemenid style from the north Pontic area contrasts to the rather numerous distribution of seals, both cylinder and scaraboid, of Graeco-Persian type. They
originate, primarily, from the necropoleis of the Bosporan Kingdom, first of all
Pantikapaion, with separate finds in one of the Seven Brothers barrows and
from Chersonesos (see Appendix 1) (Fig. 8). Remarkable also is the fact that
such seals are practically unknown in the Scythian barrows of the Dnieper
basin,113 where, for instance in Chertomlyk, there are known finds of gold
finger bezelrings with engraved images of east Greek type.114 In the north
Pontic area, four of 14 seals originating from reliable contexts are cylinder
seals, which were used in the Achaemenid Empire from the reign of Dareios
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Fig. 8. The distribution of Graeco-Persian seals of the fifth to fourth century BC in the
Crimea and the Kuban area (map M. Treister).
I for sealing royal documents.115 At the same time, some of the seals found in
the area of the Bosporan Kingdom were most probably cut in western Anatolia, primarily in Lydia, where numerous examples of Achaemenid-type
seals have been found. Noteworthy is the comparison of the motif of a pair
of confronting winged griffins on a scaraboid with a Lydian inscription from
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Pantikapaion116 with the motif of a pyramidal stamp seal from Ikiztepe117.

Also, the loops of the scarabs from Nymphaion and Seven Brothers barrow
no.3 find exact prototypes among the loops of the scaraboids from Ikiztepe118
and from Sardis119 in Lydia.
On the other hand, neither in Scythia nor in the Cimmerian Bosporus was
jewellery of the Achaemenid style found. This situation contrasts sharply with
numerous finds, including bracelets of various types120 and a pectoral,121 found
in burial no.6 in Vani, Colchis. Also in Colchis (Mtsidziri), an Achaemenidinspired silver rhyton with a protome of a syncretic deity was found.122 The
finds of Achaemenid-inspired jewellery and vessels of Achaemenid style
occur not only from Colchis, which paid tribute to the Achaemenid Empire
and was a buffer state adjoining its border,123 but also in northeastern Georgia,
most certainly outside the border of the Achaemenid Empire (the so-called
Akhalgori Treasury, presumably an inventory of a burial dated to the late
fourth to early third century BC124 and the so-called Kazbegi Treasure).125 It
is also remarkable that in the territory of modern Georgia, of which only a
certain part allegedly belonged to the Achaemenid satrapy, only six Achaemenid seals, four of which originated from later contexts of the first centuries
AD, have been found.126 At the same time, Georgian finds of jewellery and
vessels made of precious metals in the Achaemenid style, both in terms of
quantity and variety of types, exceed those from Armenia, which was certainly an Achaemenid satrapy, and which has yielded silver Achaemenid and
Achaemenid-style rhyta in the Erebuni Treasure127 and also separate finds of
jewellery, such as a pectoral from Armavir.128
4.2. The south Ural region
The distribution of Achaemenid and Achaemenid-style silver, silver-gilt and
gold vessels, including various shapes, such as rhyta, double-handled jugs,
cups and phialae, exemplifies an absolutely different pattern in the rather
compact area of the south Ural. All ten finds originate from early Sarmatian
burials of the fourth century BC, including those in barrows no. 1 and no. 4 of
Filippovka,129 barrows no. 1 and B in Prokhorovka,130 Dolinnoe131 and Orsk.132
4.2.1. Vessels made of precious metals
4.2.1.1. Vessels from Filippovka
A gold goblet with double-layered walls and double handles shaped as ibexes
(Fig. 9) from cache no. 2 in barrow no. 1 is unique.133 However, a stylistically
similar treatment of animal heads may be seen on a silver inscribed rhyton,
the lower part of which is shaped in the form of three ibex heads. The rhyton,134 which is kept in the National Museum, Tehran, originates from the
so-called Western Cave Treasure (Kalmakareh cave in Luristan), which was
looted between 1989 and 1992.135 Given the Neo-Elamite and Neo-Assyrian
cuneiform inscriptions on many of the vessels, the treasure may be dated to
the late seventh or to the early sixth century BC. It may be supposed, thus,
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Fig. 9. A gold goblet from cache no. 2, barrow no. 1 in Filippovka. Ufa, Museum of
Archaeology and Ethnography of the Centre of Ethnological Studies, Ufa Scientific Centre
of the Russian Academy of Sciences, inv. 831/384 (photo after Cat. New York 2000, no. 93).
that this is the earliest of the vessels found in Filippovka it may be tentatively dated to the late sixth to the first half of the fifth century BC and can
be attributed as an item of an Iranian (Luristan?) workshop.
A silver amphora-rhyton (Fig. 10) from burial no. 4 of barrow no. 4/2006136
belongs to the same class of vessels as a piece from Kukova Mogila, which
has already been discussed briefly above.137 The decoration of the vessels
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Fig. 10. A silver amphora
from burial no. 4, barrow no.
4 in Filippovka. Orenburg,
Local Lore Museum, inv.
19064 (photo after Jablonskij
& Meshcherjakov 2007, col.
pl. 1).
body with only vertical fluting (without lotus-palmette chain) finds parallels
on vessels of unknown origin in the Pomerance Collection138 and the Berlin
Museum.139 The closest parallel to the handle showing an ibex occurs on a
vessel in the Ortiz Collection.140 A similar silver handle showing a bull figure
with its head turned back (but without a spout) originates from the treasure
of a toreut found in Babylon and dates to the middle of the first quarter of
the fourth century BC.141 Given the distribution of such vessels, both actual
artefacts and depictions,142 there are good reasons to date the amphora-rhyton
from Filippovka from the mid-fifth to the early fourth century BC and to consider it as derived from an Asia Minor workshop.
The closest parallel in shape to the silver-gilt tulip-shaped rhyton (Fig. 11)
from cache no. 2 in barrow no. 1143 is a silver goblet, with a lost, supposedly
conical basin, from treasure no. 2 found in the early 20th century in Panderma
in the western Asia Minor. The body of this cup is horizontally fluted, the
incised frieze on the upper part of the body is composed of alternate circles
and double lotus flowers. The shape and decoration of the goblet from Panderma give reason to consider it as inspired by the lydion shape and to date
it tentatively to ca. 400 BC, considering it as an item of a Lydian workshop.144
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Fig. 11. A silver-gilt rhyton from cache no. 2, barrow no. 1 in Filippovka. Ufa, Museum of
A rosette composed of lily petals (nelumbo) is a characteristic element of the

fifth to fourth century BC silver goblets distributed primarily in Egypt, but
known also outside of its borders, for instance in Asia Minor,145 Macedonia
and Thrace.146 The feature of gilt elements alternating with similar ones in
silver colour is characteristic of items of toreutics of the first half of the fourth
century BC, for example the phiale said to have been found in Akarnania147
and those from the Rogozen Treasure,148 as well as the above-mentioned jugs
from the Rogozen Treasure.149 Thus, the vessel from Filippovka may be most
probably dated within the period the late fifth/early fourth century BC to the
first half of the fourth century BC and considered as the product of a workshop located in western Asia Minor or Thrace.
A silver rhyton with a bull protome (Fig. 12) from cache no. 2 in barrow
no. 1150 finds its nearest parallel in the above-mentioned find from Borovo151
and is probably an item manufactured in the first half of the fourth century
BC in the workshop of the quarters of the king of the Odryssian dynasty.
A vessel with a flat-bottom, egg-shaped body, decorated with concentric
incised lines, encrusted with gold wire, with a short neck widening towards
the out-turning lip (Fig. 13) from cache no. 1 of barrow no. 1152 most probably
imitates the form of the lydion, a silver vessel of that shape153 which is known
also in Lydian pottery154 originating from looters excavations of the Ikiztepe
barrow in eastern Lydia.
The encrustation of grooves with gold wire is a feature unknown, up till
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Fig. 12. A silver rhyton from cache no. 2, barrow no. 1 in Filippovka. Ufa, Museum of
now, on items of toreutics of the Achaemenid circle. Though some of the

Achaemenid silver vessels bear gold inlays, they are made in the form of
thin gold plates, inserted in grooves in the walls.155 At the same time, we see
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Fig. 13. A silver gold-inlaid vessel with flaring neck from cache no. 1, barrow no. 1 in
Filippovka. Ufa, Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography of the Centre of Ethnological
Studies, Ufa Scientific Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences, inv. 831/387 (photo
after Cat. New York 2000, no. 19).
motifs in gold wire or narrow strips of gold inlaid in silver on some items of
Thracian toreutics dated to the first half to the middle of the fourth century
BC.156 We cannot define precisely the centre of manufacture of the vessel from
Filippovka or its exact date.
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4.2.1.2. Vessels from Prokhorovka

Special studies devoted to the vessels from Prokhorovka allow me to avoid repetition of their analysis.157 One of the phialae found in barrow no. 1 (Fig. 14)158
may be dated to the second half of the fifth century BC, a second phiale from
barrow no. 1 (Fig. 15)159 and the cup from barrow B (Fig. 16)160 belong to the
second half of the fourth century BC.
The comparative material does not allow us to determine the manufacturing centre of the earlier phiale (Fig. 14), though parallels to its shape and
decoration permit an attribution to the class of vessels which were broadly
used in various satrapies of the Achaemenid Empire. From that point of view,
the phiale now kept in Alma-Ata may be conventionally determined as an
item of Achaemenid international style.
The later phiale (Fig. 15), kept in Orenburg, was supposedly manufactured
in Alexandria. The peculiar features of its shape and decoration testify that
Fig. 14. A silver phiale from Prokhorovka, barrow no. 1. Alma-Ata, National Museum of
Kazakhstan, inv. KP 3986 (photo after Cat. Mantua 1998, no. 456).
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Fig. 15. A silver phiale from Prokhorovka, barrow no. 1. Orenburg, Local Lore Museum,
inv. 47/3 (photo courtesy of L.T. Jablonskij).
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Fig. 16. A silver-gilt cup from Prokhorovka, barrow B, burial no. 3. Orenburg, Local Lore
Museum, inv. 18873/1148 (photo courtesy of L.T. Jablonskij).
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that is rather an Achaemenid-inspired item, executed in an early Hellenistic

workshop, and one of the numerous articles executed also after the disintegration of the Achaemenid Empire in the territories of the former satrapies.161
For the Achaemenid bowls of the so-called Macedonian type, to which,
given its shape, the cup from barrow B (Fig. 16) is rather close, a different
decoration of the lower part of the body and the bottom is characteristic. Neither of the bowls found in Macedonia demonstrates similar incised and gilded
floral patterns with ivy leaves.162 The Macedonian bowls have rather standard dimensions; they are significantly smaller than the bowl from Prokhorovka. Similar decoration, in terms of shape and technique, occurs only on
two bowls of somewhat different shape, with much more elongated necks:
one of these bowls originates from south Italy,163 the other from Thrace.164 The
lower parts of both bowls have vertical fluting, similar to those of the Macedonian bowls. In spite of the proximity in terms of form and proportion to
the so-called Achaemenid bowls of Macedonian type, the dimensions and
decoration of the bowl from Prokhorovka testify most probably to manufacture outside of Macedonia. However, given the peculiarity of its decoration,
we do not possess data which would allow for a more precise localization of
its workshop.165
4.2.1.3. Comparative analysis of the imported metal vessels of the
Filippovka and Prokhorovka necropoleis
In general, the silver vessels of the Achaemenid style from Filippovka (Figs.
9-13) are dated between the mid-fifth and the first half of the fourth century
BC. The majority of them may be considered as products of Asia Minor and
(or) Thracian workshops. The vessels found in Prokhorovka (Figs. 14-16) were
manufactured in different centres and at different times: two of the three vessels are items not of the Achaemenid style, but, rather, they are Achaemenidinspired objects, executed in the second half of the fourth century BC most
probably in the Balkans and in Alexandria.
4.2.2. Jewellery
Not only the quantity of vessels, which constitute the most numerous group
of Achaemenid and Achaemenid-inspired vessels of precious metals outside the borders of the Achaemenid Empire, and the variety of shapes speak
in favour of a different pattern of distribution, but also the fact that some of
the above-mentioned graves (Filippovka barrow nos. 4 and 15 and a barrow
near Orsk) yielded finds of Achaemenid jewellery, including torques, bracelets
and an element of a pectoral. Burial no. 4 of barrow no. 4/2006 of the Filippovka necropolis yielded gold jewellery in the Achaemenid style, including
a torque (Fig. 17)166 and an omega-shaped bracelet with sculpted images of
ibexes (Fig. 18)167 (similar images may be seen on the bracelets from the Oxus
Treasure)168. A barrow near Orsk yielded a torque with the terminals in the
form of sculpted ibexes169, similar to the images on the terminals of a pair of
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Fig. 17. A gold torque from Filippovka, barrow no. 4, burial no. 4. Orenburg, Local Lore
Museum, inv. 19066 (photo courtesy of L.T. Jablonskij).
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Fig. 18. Gold bracelets from Filippovka, barrow no. 4, burial no. 4. Orenburg, Local Lore
Museum, inv. 19105-19106 (photo courtesy of L.T. Jablonskij).
bracelets from Filippovka.170 Comparable images of caprids decorate fragmentary gold torques from the Oxus Treasure171 and a piece now in Brooklyn.172
The modelling of the back legs in low relief with cells for inlays on the hoops
(Fig. 18) finds parallels, for instance, on the gold bracelets with lion-griffin terminals from Da Kzlca Ky near Manisa173 and from the Oxus Treasure.174
Also, the decoration of the ribbed hoop of the torque from Filippovka with
transverse grooves (Fig. 17) finds numerous parallels in jewellery of Achaemenid style.175 At the same time, Achaemenid-style seals are almost unknown,
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Fig. 19. A gold inlaid plaque from Filippovka, barrow no. 15, burial
no. 1. Orenburg, Local Lore Museum, inv. 18980/73 (photo courtesy
of L.T. Jablonskij).
except for the find from barrow no. 2 near Pokrovka of a conical chalcedony
stamp showing the king in a struggle with a lion.176
A gold plaque with cloisonn decoration, showing a bearded man wearing typical Achaemenid headware (Fig. 19), was reused as an amulette in the
female Sarmatian burial no. 1 of Filippovka barrow no. 15/2004.177 Its closest
parallel originates from Yozgat in Turkey.178 Another piece of unknown origin
is kept in the State Hermitage Museum.179 Both plaques were originally parts
of some complicated ornament, like a pectoral, which is now kept in Miho
Museum.180 The similarity of these objects, in terms of the images, style and
decorative technique, with the gold roundels from Susa181 and an earring
once in the Norbert Schimmel Collection182 is evident. The burial excavated
in 1901 on the acropolis of Susa was previously dated to the very end of the
Achaemenid period, based on the date of coins that were minted at Arad on
the Syrian coast allegedly between 350-332 BC.183 However, the coins and,
correspondingly, the tomb itself and the jewellery it yielded were recently
redated to the late fifth century BC.184
4.2.3. Arms
The silver handle of a knife, decorated with a stag protome with gold-inlaid
details, was found in burial no. 5 of barrow no. 5 in Filippovka.185 It finds a
close parallel in a hippopotamus ivory knife handle found in a tumulus at
Dedetepe in northwestern Turkey, which is dated by the burial inventory
to ca. 480-460 BC.186 Its Achaemenid inspiration is further confirmed by the
outlined beard leading to the ears and, especially, by the typical representation of the animals hindquarters in relief, as we see on some of the Achaemenid rhyta,187 on the majority of amphora-rhyta188 and in jewellery.189 At
the same time, the treatment of individual elements of the image (the eyes,
wings, joints, shoulder blades etc.) on the knife handle from Filippovka vary
from the characteristic canons of Achaemenid-style art. Although the silver
figures of animals in the round which were used primarily as vessel handles
are often additionally inlaid with gold,190 the decoration of the knife handle
from Filippovka differs from these in the shape of the gold inlays, which are
comparable with the gold-inlaid decoration on the iron swords, quiver hooks
and knife from Filippovka191 and on the dagger from the princely Saka burial
in Issyk barrow in Kazakhstan.192 The suggestion that this technique had
early roots with the Eurasian nomads is corroborated by its use already in the
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seventh century BC, based on the evidence of the decoration of an axe193 and
arrowheads194 from barrow Arzhan-2 in south Siberia. Thus, it is evident that
the handle of the knife from Filippovka cannot be considered as an example
of the Achaemenid international style, although it was inspired by such an
item, most probably of Asia Minor manufacture in the first half of the fifth
century BC. We do not know who created this knife handle. The peculiarities
of style and the inlaid technique do not exclude the possibility that it could
have been manufactured either in a provincial Achaemenid workshop where
its craftsmen considered the tastes of the Sarmatian client or by a Sarmatian
metalworker after Achaemenid prototypes.
4.2.4. Changes of function and repairs
Another important feature is a change of function for some of the objects by
the Sarmatians. In contrast to the finds from Colchis and northeastern Georgia,
which are represented both by imports from the Achaemenid Empire, most
of which were manufactured presumably in Anatolia, as well as by locally
made Achaemenid-inspired items, one of the objects found in south Ural
may be identified as a locally-made item imitating metalware or jewellery
of Achaemenid type. At the same time, the phialae from barrow no. 1 near
Prokhorovka had secondary use as phalerae of horse-harnesses (Figs. 14-15),
while one of them bears signs of a handicraft repair, by means of sewing with
the help of a narrow silver strip (Fig. 15).195 One of the handles of a silver-gilt
amphora-rhyton (Fig. 10) from barrow no. 4/2006 near Filippovka was lost
and the vessel was most probably used as an incense-burner.196
5. The means of distribution

A.Yu. Alekseev suggests that the Chertomlyk sword (Fig. 3) could have been
a gift from Alexander the Great to the Scythians, in exchange for the gifts
sent from Scythia, or that it could have been a Scythian heirloom that somehow made its way from Persia in the fifth century BC, perhaps via the Saka
tribes.197 According to E.V. Chernenko, the sword could have been booty that
the Scythians captured from the Persians during Dareios invasion of the
steppes at the end of the sixth century BC.198 All these suggestions seem to
me to be mere speculations, as we do not have any conclusive data for dating
the sword and its reworking.
The possible manufacture of the Seven Brothers rhyton (Figs. 1, 2) in an
Anatolian workshop, working in the Achaemenid style, as well as the burial
inventory do not give us any hints concerning the possible relation of the
find to direct contacts with the Achaemenid Empire, although one cannot
exclude the possibility that the rhyton was a diplomatic gift. Such a function fits the suggestion that the Seven Brothers barrows formed a necropolis
of the Sindian kings,199 and the proximity of the dates of the rhyton and the
burial. It is worth noting that the earliest items of toreutics and glyptics of the
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Achaemenid style find their way into Cimmerian Bosporus and Sindike not
later than the middle of the fifth century BC, during the rule of Artaxerxes
I. Most of the cylinder seals and scaraboids, whose provenance is known to
us (Fig. 8), originate from the fourth century burials. However, the earliest
burial complex containing such a find the tomb of a warrior excavated in
Nymphaion in 1876 (see Appendix 1, no. 9) is dated already to the first half
of the fifth century BC. Is it possible to discuss them as evidence of diplomatic
contacts of the Achaemenid Empire, for which, in the period discussed the
last stage of the Graeco-Persian Wars before the Kallias Peace (449 BC) the
strengthening their positions in the basin of the Black Sea could have a certain
interest? Although the material in our possession does not give any grounds
for direct historical conclusions, undoubtedly it reflects certain contacts (see
below). In any case, we have a striking similarity in the distribution patterns
of the Achaemenid seals of the fifth to fourth centuries BC and the bronze
finger rings of the late third century BC of Ptolemaic type in the north Pontic
area,200 which can hardly be coincidental.
There are also several examples of bronze and silver phialae of Achaemenid
types, found both in the early burial of the royal Scythian barrow of Solokha
(Fig. 5) as well as in the fourth century BC burials on the Taman peninsula
(Zelenskaya Gora: Fig. 7) and in the Kuban area (Zhirnyi barrow: Fig. 6). The
Kul-Oba rhyton with a ram protome (Fig. 4) testifies that toreutic items of
Achaemenid style were known in the north Pontic area and were even imitated by local craftsmen.
The various patterns of distribution of Achaemenid goldware and silverware and jewellery by the early Sarmatian tribes of the south Ural area
(Fig. 20) suggest a different explanation of the means of their distribution.
One of the burials in the barrows near Orsk (not the same one with the gold
torque, executed in the Achaemenid style, and a silver rhyton) contained
an alabastron with a quadralingual inscription with the name of Artaxeres,
most probably Artaxerxes I,201 and the most plausible explanation, according to R. Schmitt, is that solche Gefe als Geschenke des Groknigs fr
irgendwelche Verdienste aufzufassen sind, die die so Ausgezeichneten dann
mit nach Hause genommen haben.202 Also, A.S. Balakhvanstev and L.T.
Yablonskij maintain that such prestigious objects could have been donated
to chiefs of nomads for their service as mercenaries for the Achaemenids.203
These suggestions seem to be appropriate explanations.It is maintained that
the major stream of objects of Near Eastern and Egyptian origin penetrated
to the south Ural region via Khoresm204 and could hardly have found their
way into this area after the independence of Khoresm from the Achaemenid
Empire, not later than the late fifth century BC.205 If one accepts this, then
most of the Achaemenid-style vessels found in Filippovka and the phialae
and bowl found in Prokhorovka (i.e. both the vessels allegedly manufactured
in Asia Minor workshops in the second half of the fifth to the first half of the
fourth century BC and the Achaemenid-inspired items of the second half
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Fig. 20. The distribution of

Achaemenid and Achaemenidinspired metalwork to the north of
the Achaemenid Empire (map M.
Treister).
of the fourth century BC manufactured by craftsmen of the eastern Mediterranean and the Balkans) found different ways to the Sarmatians of the south
Ural region.
One explanation with regard to the finds of silver vessels in Prokhorovka
is the suggestion that the Sarmatians could have acquired them during the
plundering of the Macedonian transport.206 This hypothesis is based on the
passages in Diodoros and Curtius Rufus which state that the Dachoi and Massagetae served under Dareios III and played an important role in the battle
near Arbellae (Diod. 17.59; Curt. 4.15.1-12).207 To my mind, this is a plausible
explanation of the finds of parts of objects and the dense distribution of various categories of objects, a considerable number of which was reworked or
used in a way other than the original function. In any case, the same way via
Dachoi is suggested by A.S. Balakhvantsev and L.T. Jablonskij for the silver
bowl found in Prokhorovka barrow B (Fig. 16).208
Appendix 1. Achaemenid seals in the north Pontic area209

Seals which are more or less contemporary with the date of the burials in
which they have been found have been identified in Seven Brothers barrow
no. 3 (no. 9). The barrow is allegedly associated with the latest Sindian king,
Hekateios.210 Also, both finds from Nymphaion (nos. 10-11) seem to be more
or less close in date to those of the respective burials. However, some of the
seal finds originate from distinctly later complexes, for instance, a scaraboid
(no. 7) which is dated to the first half of the fourth century BC was found in
a rather modest female burial on the Mithridates mound in Kerch dated to
the late fourth to early third century BC. A fifth to fourth century BC seal (no.
12) was found in the burial of the 3rd Dame in Bolshaja Bliznitsa tumulus,
which is also dated to the late fourth to early third century BC. A fourth century BC scaraboid (no. 6) was found in a cremation dated to the first half of
the third century BC. Two early fourth century seals (nos. 1, 2) originate from
a destroyed female burial in a wooden sarcophagos in a barrow at Stanitsa
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Blagoveshchenskaja near Anapa, which is dated to the mid-third century BC;

a prism seal from this barrow (no. 2) and a cylinder seal from Chersonesos
(no. 13) were in secondary use.
Seals with recorded find context
1. Blagoveshchenskaja near Anapa, a barrow, excavated by V.G. Tiesenhausen in 1882.
Cylinder seal. A Persian, wearing a tiara, stands with raised hands facing a
radiate goddess, standing on a lions back. The Arndt Group. Surely cut
in Anatolia (Boardman 2000, 165).
Blue chalcedony.
Date: early fourth century BC.
Date of the complex: mid-third century BC (Pfrommer 1990b, 262, FK 120). On
a wooden sarcophagos, see Sokolskij 1969, 29-31, no. 21 with bibliography.
State Hermitage, inv. . 1882.55.
Literature: CR St Petersburg 1882-1888, pl. V.3-3a; Boardman 2000, 163,
fig. 5.19, 165; Boardman 2001, 353, pl. 878; Cat. St Petersburg 2004, 30, no. 7.
2. Blagoveshchenskaja near Anapa, a barrow, excavated by V.G. Tiesenhausen in 1882.
Four-sided prism seal () a Persian holding a bow; (B) a bearded Greek, in
a himation, playing with a dog; (C) a naked woman stretching; (D) two
cocks fighting. Greek style.
Cornelian.
Date: early fourth century BC.
Date of the complex: mid-third century BC (Pfrommer 1990b, 262, FK 120).
Literature: CR St Petersburg 1882-1888, 60, pl. V.1-1a; Neverov 1976a, no. 44;
Neverov 1983, 110-111; Nikulina 1994, fig. 291; Boardman 2001, 352, pl.
861; Cat. St Petersburg 2004, 30, no. 8.
3. Kerch, 1834. Tomb number or description unknown to me.
Cylinder seal. Persian king in battle with Greek warriors; a symbol of
Akhuramazda above.
Discoloured stone in gold frame with double hoop.
Date: fifth century BC.
Date of the complex: unknown to me.
Literature: Reinach 1892, 58, pl. XVI.2-3; Cat. St Petersburg 2004, 30, no. 9.
4. Kerch, 1842. Tomb number or description unknown to me.
Cylinder seal. Persian king, two sphinxes, a Demon under a palm tree; a symbol of Akhuramazda above.
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Cornelian, on a gold chain.

Literature: Reinach 1892, 59, pl. XVI.5-6; Nikulina 1994, fig. 426; Cat. St Petersburg 2004, 30, no. 10.
5. Kerch, excavations at the Pavlovskaya battery by A.B. Ashik in 1842. Cist
tomb with a female burial in a wooden sarcophagos.
Scaraboid. Two sphinxes sitting in crowns, over them a Lydian inscription.
Court style. West Anatolian stamp seal (Boardman 2000, 166).
Cornelian, flattened gold hoop, widening in the centre.
Date of the complex: late fifth century BC (Boardman 1970, 37, n. 98). About
the complex, see Reinach 1892, 50 (gold finger ring pl. XVIII.9; bronze
mirror, alabaster).
Literature: Reinach 1892, 59, pl. XVI.10; Boardman 1970, 39, no. 5, pl. 1.5; Nikulina 1994, fig. 447; Boardman 2000, 166-167, fig. 5.27; Boardman 2001, 351,
pl. 834; Cat. St Petersburg 2004, 31, no. 12; Fedoseev 2007, 1022, fig. 16.4.
Cf. a similar hoop, widening in the centre: a scaraboid from Pavlovskij
barrow (Boardman 2001, pl. 822).
6. Kerch, 1852. Tomb number or description unknown to me. Sent to the
Hermitage by L.A. Perovskij in 1853.
Scaraboid. A sphinx.
Discoloured stone, flattened gold hoop.
Literature: Reinach 1892, 59, pl. XVI.14; Cat. St Petersburg 2004, 32, no. 19.
7. Kerch, 1839. Tomb II in a barrow on the way to Churubash, excavated by
A.B. Ashik. Scaraboid. A Persian warrior, leaning on a spear.
Chalcedony.
Date: fourth century BC.
Date of the complex: mid-third century BC(?). A scaraboid with an image of
a stag (Reinach 1892, 59, pl. XVI.9), a gold finger ring (Reinach 1892, 61,
pl. XVIII.1), a bronze finger ring with a portrait image of Ptolemy II (Reinach 1892, 62, pl. XVIII.12; Neverov 1976b, 167, 170, pl. I.3, 179, n. 7) and
earrings (Reinach 1892, 47, pl. VII.1) were found in a painted vase with
the profiles of a female head and the head of a horse. About the complex,
see Reinach 1892, 59; Neverov 1976b, 167.
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Literature: Reinach 1892, 60, pl. XVII.9; Maximowa 1928, 669, fig. 23; Neverov
1976a, no. 40; Nikulina 1994, fig. 351; Boardman 2001, 290, pl. 532; Cat. St
Petersburg 2004, 33, no. 26.
8. Kerch, Mithridates mount, excavated by V.V. Shkorpril, burial no. 25/1907.
Scaraboid. A running sphinx.
Chalcedony.
Date: first half of the fourth century BC.
Date of the complex: late fourth to early third century BC. Among other
finds, six copper coins (Burachkov 1884, pl. XX, 89 = Shelov 1978, pl. V, 56
= Anokhin 1986, pl. 3, 112) and one copper coin (Burachkov 1884, pl. XX,
93 = Shelov 1956, pl. V, 55 = Anokhin 1986, pl. 3, 113) were found. According to V.A. Anokhin, the coins belong to the series -24, which he dates
to ca. 314-310 BC (Anokhin 1986, 140). E.M. Alekseeva dates the beads
found in the burial to the second half of the fourth to the third century BC
(Alekseeva 1975, 76, no. 200). A gold finger ring with an image of a lion
attacking a bull (Shkorpil 1910, 18, fig. 3) is dated to the fourth century
BC (Neverov 1986, 23, 27, n. 75).
Literature: CR St Petersburg 1907, 79, fig. 68; Pharmakowsky 1908, 169 f.;
Shkorpil 1910, 18, fig. 2; Neverov 1976a, no. 49; Neverov 1983, 109; Nikulina 1994, fig. 290; Cat. St Petersburg 2004, 34, no. 32.
9. Seven Brothers barrow no 3, excavated by V.G. Tiesenhausen in 1876.
Scaraboid. A bear. The Group of Leaping Lions.
Chalcedony. Gold hoop, circular in section.
Date of the complex: first quarter of the fourth century BC (Vlasova 2001b,
131), after the find of a Thasian stamp of the early fourth century BC.
State Hermitage, inv. . III.1.
Literature: Artamonow 1970, pl. 131; Neverov 1976a, no. 47; Nikulina 1994,
fig. 262; Boardman 2001, 354, pl. 910; Cat. St Petersburg 2004, 35, no. 35.
10. Nymphaion, barrow no. 24/1876, tomb no. 19 1876, burial of a warrior.
Scaraboid. () A cow with a calf; (B) a symbol of Ahuramazda.
Obsidian. Gold hoop, circular in section.
Date: first half of the fifth century BC.
Date of the complex: first half of the fifth century BC.
State Hermitage, inv. /. 84.
Literature: CR St Petersburg 1877, 224, pl. III; Minns 1913, 208, fig. 106;
Silanteva 1959, 56, fig. 24.2; Brentjes 1967, 239, pl. I; Artamonow 1970, 24,
fig. 36; Neverov 1983, 108; Neverov 1995, 72-73, no. 15, pl. XII.3; Cat. St
Petersburg 1999, 112, no. 293; Cat. St Petersburg 2004, 35, no. 35.
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11. Nymphaion, barrow no. 5/1868, female burial.

Scaraboid. A winged lion, standing on its hind paws.
Chalcedony.
Date of the complex: first half of the fourth century BC(?).
Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, inv. AN 1885. 491.
Literature: Vickers 1979, 44, pl. 14b-c; Boardman 2001, pl. 838; Vickers 2002,
9, 42-43, pl. 15 (below).
12. Great Bliznitsa tumulus, the so-called burial of the 3rd Dame, excavated
in 1868.
Octogan seal. Persian king in a struggle with a lion. Court style.
Chalcedony, flattened hoop.
Date: fifth to fourth century BC.
Date of the complex: late fourth to early third century BC (Pruglo 1974, 77;
Schwarzmaier 1996, 136).
State Hermitage, inv. . 123.
Literature: CR St Petersburg 1869, pl. I.18; Boardman 1970, 42, no. 86, pl. 4;
Neverov 1983, 107; Nikulina 1994, fig. 445; Schwarzmaier 1996, 123, fig. 10
(below right); Boardman 2001, 351, pl. 824; Cat. St Petersburg 2004, 31,
no. 14.
13. Chersonesos, 1853.
Cylinder seal, fragmented. A mounted Persian with a spear.
Cornelian.
State Hermitage, inv. . 1853.5
Literature: Neverov 1983, 111; Neverov 1984, 47; Cat. St Petersburg 2004, 31,
no. 11.
14. Phanagoria, tile burial in a barrow to the west of the site, excavated in 1954.
Scaraboid. A female with a phiale in her hand.
Chalcedony, flattened gold framing.
Date: middle to second half of the fourth century BC.
Date of the complex: late fourth to early third century BC.
Moscow, State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, inv. -1138.
Literature: Marchenko 1960, 22-27; Nikulina 1965, 186, fig. 1.11, 192-195;
Finogenova 1993, no. 3; Nikulina 1994, fig. 516; Cat. St Petersburg 2004,
31, no. 11.
15. Smela, Cherkassy region, Ukraine, a group of barrows over Kholodnyj
Jar, barrow no. 19/1885.
Cylinder seal. Horse galloping to the right. A symbol of Ahuramazda above.
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Chalcedony.
Date: late fifth to fourth century BC.
Date of the complex: fourth century BC (Petrenko 1967, 95).
Literature: Bobrinskij 1887, 76, fig. on p. 77; Minns 1913, 193, fig. 85; Rostowzew 1931, 425, Achaemenid; Onajko 1970, 119, no. 849, pl. XVIII.
The closest parallel is a chalcedony cylinder seal in Berlin attributed as an
item of the Achaemenid court style: Boardman 2000, 159-160, fig. 5.14;
Boardman 2001, 351, pl. 831; Cat. Speyer 2006, 45.
Greco-Persian seals most probably found in the territory of the Bosporan
Kingdom
16. From the collection of . Zvenigorodskij (Kerch), acquired by the State
Hermitage Museum in 1880.
Cylinder seal. A Persian king and defeated enemies.
Chalcedony.
Date: late fifth to early fourth century BC.
State Hermitage, inv. 501.
Literature: Lukonin 1977, 86 (ill.); Nikulina 1994, 419; Boardman 2000, 159,
160, fig. 5.6; Cat. St Petersburg 2004, 30, no. 6.
17. Acquired in Kerch by N.P. Kondakov.
Scaraboid. Two Persian hunters in a chariot. The Cambridge Group.
Discoloured stone. Gold hoop, circular in section.
Date: fifth to fourth century BC.
Literature: Nikulina 1994, fig. 511; Boardman 2001, 355, pl. 928; Cat. St Petersburg 2004, 32, no. 17.
18. From the collection of .V. Novikov (Kerch), acquired by the State Hermitage Museum in 1900.
Scaraboid. A Persian archer. The Pendants Group.
Discoloured stone.
Literature: Nikulina 1994, fig. 515; Boardman 2001, 353, pl. 887; Cat. St Petersburg 2004, 33, no. 25.
19. From the collection of E.M. Kirjakov (Kerch).
Scaraboid. A Persian female with vases.
Discoloured stone.
Literature: Knipovich 1926, pl. III.5; Cat. St Petersburg 2004, 33, no. 24.
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Notes
* I would like to express my gratitude to Leonid Jablonskij (Institute of Archaeology, Moscow) for the supply of photographs and to Margaret Miller (University
of Sydney) for revision of the English version of the text.
1 Koshelenko 1999, 130-142.
2 Molev 2001.
3 Fedoseev 1997, 310-319.
4 Fedoseev 1997, 310-311.
5 Maksimova 1956, 190-196; Fedoseev 1997, 310.
6 Fedoseev 1997, 311-312.
7 Fedoseev 1997, 312-313.
8 Melikian-Chirvani 1993, 111-130.
9 Vlasova 2001a, 20-27.
10 CR St Petersburg 1877, 15-16, pl. I.5; Smirnov 1909, pl. IV, no. 15; Ghirshman
1964, 358, fig. 462; Anfimov 1987, 106-107; Dandamaev & Lukonin 1989, 265, fig.
32; Melikian-Chirvani 1996, 98-99; Vlasova 2000, 55, no. 3; Vlasova 2001a, 20-23,
fig. 1.3, 25, no. 1; Cat. St Petersburg 2004, 28-29, no. 4 with bibliography; Cat. St
Petersburg 2007, 279, no. 315.
11 MMA Bull. Spring 1992, 16.
12 Ivanov 1975, 20; Marazov 1978, 50-53; Luschey 1983, 326, no. B13, pl. 59.4; Cat.
Saint Louis 1998, 225, no. 176; Cat. Bonn 2004, 195, no. 226d; Cat. Paris 2006, 76-77,
no. 15.
14 Cat. Berlin 1978, no. 177; Marazov 1978, 54, fig. 49; MMA Bull. Spring 1992, 16;
Koch 1992, 185, pl. 22; Cat. New York 2000, 154, fig. 68; Miller 2007, 56-57, fig. 7.
16 Sothebys, New York, 7 December 2001. Egyptian, Classical and Western Asiatic Antiquities Including Property from the Collection of the Late Marion Schuster, Lausanne.
Sale no. 7742, no. 155.
17 Cat. Vienna 2000, 206, no. 118.
18 Cat. Paris 1961, no. 684, pl. LV; Ghirshman 1964, 255, fig. 308; Cat. Vienna 2000,
200, no. 114.
19 Antikenmuseum Berlin 1988, 329, no. 1; Cat. Berlin 2002, 140, no. 39; Cat. Speyer
2006, 188-189, fig. 1.
20 Amandry 1959, 50, pl. 27.2-3; Boardman 2000, 188, fig. 5.70; Cat. London 2005,
125, no. 128.
21 Waldbaum 1983, 151, no. 996, pl. 58.
22 Filow 1934, 46, no. 14, figs. 55-59, 199-210, pl. III; Marazov 1978, 14-18; Luschey
1983, 323, no. A2 with bibliography, pl. 59.4; Pfrommer 1990a, 193, pl. 40.2, n. 13;
Cat. Saint Louis 1998, no. 117; von Gall 1999, 154, 156-157, figs. 7-8; Boardman
2000, 190, fig. 5.71; Zournatzi 2000, 684, fig. 1, 685, 687. On the dating of the burial,
see Pfrommer 1990a, 193, n. 15.
23 See n. 14.
24 Smirnov 1909, pl. V.17; Lukonin 1977, 85 (ill.); Marazov 1978, 12-13, fig. 4, 55 (erroneously described by I. Marazov as a rhyton from Ust-Kamenogorsk); Luschey
1983, 318, pl. 60.1; Dandamaev & Lukonin 1989, 88, fig. 21; Miller 1993, 123, pl.
24.4.
25 von Bothmer 1984, no. 49.
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26 Waldbaum 1983, no. 973, pl. 57. On parallels in the Lydian pottery repertoire, see
also Waldbaum 1983, 148.
27 Miller 1993, 126, pl. 29.1.
28 Calmeyer 1993, 132, pl. 45 (top).
29 Vickers 2000. See the fragment of the relief with Delegation XV: Calmeyer 1993,
136-137, pl. 47 (below); Cat. London 2005, 106, fig. 47 (Parthians or Bactrians).
30 Khoshtaria et al. 1972, 115, no. 44, fig. 60; Gigolashvili 1990a, 316-317; Guigolachvili 1990b, 279-280, 313, fig. 32; Vickers 2000, 263, fig. 2.
31 Archibald 1998, 181, fig. 7.5 (top right); Vickers 2000, 261-262, fig. 1.
32 Cat. Paris 1961, no. 664, pl. LVII; Ghirshman 1962, 77, fig. 24; Ghirshman 1964,
242, fig. 290; Dandamaev & Lukonin 1989, 86, fig. 19; Koch 1992, 191, fig. 140:
Cat. Vienna 2000, 200-201, no. 113; Cat. London 2005, 121, no. 118.
33 Dalton 1964, no. 178, pl. XXII; Dandamaev & Lukonin 1989, 87, fig. 20; Miller
1993, 123, pl. 24.5; Boardman 2000, 184-185, fig. 5.66; Cat. London 2005, 122, no.
119.
34 Cat. New York 1992, 230-231, no. 158; Boardman 2000, 81, fig. 2.66, 246, n. 130
with various examples.
35 Cat. Miho 2002, no. 107.
36 Cat. Vienna 1999, 63-64, no. 26.
37 In general on this class of vessels, see Amandry 1959, 38-56; Ghirshman 1962, 79;
Pfrommer 1990a, 191-209; Boardman 2000, 188-189, 246, n. 129. Such a silver-gilt
vessel of unknown provenance is kept in the J. Paul Getty Museum (Pfrommer
1990a, 191-192, pls. 36-39.2, 44; Boardman 2000, 191, fig. 5.72). Another piece, with
the body decorated with vertical fluting and allegedly found in Iraq, was kept
in the Pomerance Collection (Cat. Paris 1961, no. 685; Cat. Brooklyn 1966, no. 59;
Pfrommer 1990a, 195, pl. 41.1). A further similar silver vase, with vertical fluting
on the body and allegedly found in southwestern Iran, was kept in the Borowski
Collection (Basel) and acquired by the Museum fr Vor- und Frhgeschichte der
Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin in 1967 (Cat. Paris 1961, no. 677, pl. LIV; Ghirshman
1962, 79, fig. 31; Ghirshman 1964, 271, fig. 333; Cat. Berlin 2002, 138-140, no. 38;
Cat. Speyer 2006, 132-133, figs. 8-9).
38 See n. 22.
39 Amandry 1959, 48-50, 52-54, pl. 24; at. Paris 1961, no. 675, pl. LIII; Summerer
2003, 32, fig. 10.
40 Cat. St Petersburg 1993, no. 205; at. London 1994, no. 205; Cat. Berlin 1996, no.
205; Summerer 2003, 30-31, fig. 9.
41 Calmeyer 1993, 152-153, pl. 44 (above); Cat. London 2005, 106, fig. 46; Cat. Speyer
2006, 132, fig. 7; Miller 2007, 45-46, fig. 1.
42 Calmeyer 1993, 153, pl. 43 (below left); von Gall 1999, 158, fig. 9; Boardman 2000,
188, fig. 5.69; Summerer 2003, 33; Cat. Speyer 2006, 198, fig. 5.
43 Filow 1934, 201-202; see also von Gall 1999, 154.
44 Filow 1934, 202.
45 Pfrommer 1990a, 205, 208-209.
46 zgen & ztrk 1996, 89, no. 35; Miller 2007, 50-52, fig. 2, 54-55, fig. 5.
47 Toker 1992, 173, 223, no. 152; Miller 2007, 52-53, fig. 4.
48 See nn. 22, 40.
49 Moshkova 1981, 171-175, figs. 1-4.
50 On the date of the burial, see, for example, E.V. Vlasova, in Cat. Bonn 1997, 89.
259
51 Maximova 1928, 665-666, fig. 22; Ghirshman 1964, 358, fig. 463; Artamonow 1970,
pls. 183-184; Cat. New York 1975, 108, no. 67; Lukonin 1977, 77 (ill.), Alekseev
1984; Chernenko 1984, 48-50, fig. 25; Galanina & Grach 1986, pl. 220; Alekseev
et al. 1991, 234, no. 192; Cat. Hamburg 1993, 104-105, no. 54; Cat. Zurich 1993,
134-135, no. 69; Cat. New York 2000, 233, no. 163; Cat. Milan 2001, 122, no. 71;
Alekseyev 2005, 55, fig. 4.5; Alekseev 2007, 250, fig. 7; Cat. St Petersburg 2007,
276, no. 312.
52 Artamonow 1970, pls. 183, 185; Cat. New York 1975, 109, no. 68; Galanina & Grach
1986, pls. 221-222; Alekseev et al. 1991, 230, 234, no. 191; Cat. Hamburg 1993,
104-107, no. 55; Cat. Zurich 1993, 114-115, no. 60; Cat. New York 2000, 233-235,
no. 164; Cat. Milan 2001, 122-123, no. 72; Alekseev 2007, 252-253, fig. 9.
53 Nefedkin 1998, 71-76; Pfrommer 2002, 267-274; Alekseev 2006, 166; Alekseev 2007,
254.
54 Chernenko 1975, 163; Chernenko 1984, 49.
55 Alekseev 1984, 38-41; Chernenko 1984, 49; Alekseev et al. 1991, 99-102; cf. Alekseev
2006, 166; Alekseev 2007, 254.
56 Lukonin 1977, 77.
57 Chernenko 1984, 49-50; Alekseev 1984, 38-41; Alekseev et al. 1991, 99-103, fig. 69.
58 Minasjan 1991, 382.
59 Boardman 2000, 72, fig. 2.56a; Cat. London 2005, 53, fig. 44.
60 Cat. London 2005, 233, no. 430.
61 Cat. London 2005, 234, no. 433.
62 Ghirshman 1964, 160-165, fig. 211, 170, fig. 216, 193, fig. 240; Cat. London 2005,
78-81, no. 39; Cat. Speyer 2006, 124-125, 148-149.
63 Cat. London 2005, 84, no. 46; Cat. Speyer 2006, 114, fig. 1.
64 Maximova 1928, 665-666; Alekseev et al. 1991, 100-102.
65 Dalton 1964, no. 24, pl. X; Litvinsky 2001, 157-158, fig. 9; Cat. London 2005,
220-221, no. 396.
66 Chernenko 1984, 49; Alekseev et al. 1991, 99.
67 Artamonow 1970, pl. 250; Marazov 1978, 53-55, fig. 48; Cat. Leningrad 1985, 22,
no. 14; Galanina & Grach 1986, fig. 211; Cat. New York 2000, 210-211, no. 147;
Cat. Milan 2001, 106, no. 55; Fedoseev 2007, 990, 1010, figs. 4, 8.
68 See, for example, Treister 2005, 58.
69 Bidzilja 1971, 49, fig. 4; Orfvrerie ancienne 1975, n.p.
70 Alekseev et al. 1991, 90-91, fig. 63; Alekseev 1993, 72-75; Schneider & Zazoff 1994,
196-197, fig. 36; Cat. St Petersburg 2004, 42-43, nos. 45-46; Alekseyev 2005, 54, n.
106, 189; Cat. St Petersburg 2007, 117, no. 69.
71 See n. 37.
72 Smirnov 1934, 24-30, no. 26, pl. III.26; Ghirshman 1964, 265, fig. 325; Talbot Rice
1965, 23, fig. 12; Lordkipanidze 1972, 55; Gagoshidze 1985, 58-59, fig. 22; Dschwachischwili & Abramischwili 1986, figs. 38-39; Lordkipanidze 1991, 123, pl. 54.1-2;
Boardman 1994, 341, n. 111; at. Saarbrcken 1995, no. 299, fig. 162; Boardman
2000, 196, 198, fig. 5.82; Korolkova 2003, 54, fig. 4.1; Bill 2003, 211, no. 81.33, pl.
122.1; Cat. London 2005, 47, fig. 36; Knauss 2006, 81, 83, fig. 2.
73 Smirnov 1934, XX.
74 Lordkipanidze 1989, 323, n. 13; Lordkipanidze 1994, 153, n. 40; Bill 2003, 210-212,
no. 81, pls. 121-125.
75 Lordkipanidze 1971, 270-271, fig. 6; Lordkipanidze 1972, 54-55, fig. 39; Khoshtaria et al. 1972, 114, no. 2, fig. 39; Chkonia 1977, 96-100, 189, figs. 85-90; Chkonia
260
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
90
91
92
93
94
95
96
97
98
99
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1981, no. 16, pls. 8-9; Dschwachischwili & Abramischwili 1986, figs. 13-14; Lordkipanidze 1989, col. pl. XIII; Chkonia 1990, 291; Tchkonia 1990, 262, 304, fig. 18;
Lordkipanidze 1991, 123, pl. 51.9-10; Boardman 1994, 220; Cat. Saarbrcken 1995,
no. 273, fig. 146; Lordkipanidze 1995, 371, col. pl. II.3; Chqonia 1996, 46, 48, fig.
5; Vani 9 1996, pl. 9 (below right); konia 2002, 269-270; Korolkova 2003, 54, fig.
4.1; Bill 2003, 81-82, 231, no. 7, fig. 11.6, pl. 163.10-13; Cat. Berlin 2007, 38-39.
See, for example: frontlets from Biniova Mogila (Cat. Saint Louis 1998, 98, no.
6); Dolna Koznitsa (Cat. Saint Louis 1998, 104, no. 15), Kralevo (Cat. Saint Louis
1998, 118, no. 37); Goliamata Kosmatka (Cat. Paris 2006, 154, no. 56).
Onajko 1970, 101, no. 410, pl. XVI; Mantsevich 1987, 39, no. 12; Pfrommer 1987,
243, KaBT13.
Anfimov 1966, 22, fig. 5.
Pfrommer 1987, 52-54, 241-245.
Pfrommer 1987, 53, 243, KaBT13.
Pfrommer 1987, 243, KaBT17. A.P. Mantsevich (1987, 39) compares the shape of
the bowl from Solokha with those from Raduvene, which seems erroneous.
Cat. Cologne 1979, 117, no. 220; Pfrommer 1987, 244, KaBT20; Cat. Montreal 1987,
175-177, nos. 261, 264, 268. See also a similar bowl of unknown provenance in
the Historical Museum, Sofia (Cat. Bonn 2004, 147, no. 200).
okay-Kepe 2006, 152, no. MT1, 184.
Pfrommer 1987, 220, KaB A 68-70, pl. 42c-d; Cat. London 2005, 117, nos. 106-108.
Pharmakowsky 1913, 185-186, fig. 14; Shkorpil 1916, 30, fig. 16; Luschey 1939, 78,
no. 34; Maksimova 1979, 72, 74, fig. 23, A2; Pfrommer 1987, 155, n. 1013; AbkaiKhavari 1988, 106, 122, F2C16; Treister 2003, 58-60, fig. 7.
Themelis & Touratsoglou 1997, B 18-19, pls. 66-7; Tsigarida & Ignatiadou 2000,
70, fig. 70.
Delemen 2006, 260-261, fig. 9.
Strong 1966, 99; von Bothmer 1984, 47, no. 75; Sideris 2000, 17, 19.
Cat. New York 1992, 244, no. 170; Cat. London 2005, 178, no. 277.
Cat. Toledo 1977, no. 12; von Bothmer 1984, no. 79; Pfrommer 1987, 249, KBk 19,
pl. 50c-d.
Strong 1966, 99.
Pfrommer 1987, 154-155, n. 1013.
Pfrommer 1987, 267, pls. 11, 14a, KTK 8.
Pfrommer 1987, 267, KTK 10, pl. 13b.
Woolley 1962, 105, pl. 32, no. 9; Abkai-Kavari 1988, 121-122, F2C8.
Dalton 1964, 9, no. 19, pl. V; Cat. London 2005, 116, no. 105.
See, in general, Archibald 1998, 262-264, figs. 11.2-3, 319-321. Alexandrovo: one
of the bowls is additionally decorated with a silver-gilt medallion in the interior
(Cat. Montreal 1987, 204, no. 335; Cat. Venice 1989, no. 143/2; Cat. Florence 1997,
no. 191; Archibald 1998, 319, pls. 19-20); the other is inscribed as a gift of Cotys
I, 383-359 BC (Cat. Montreal 1987, 204, no. 334; Cat. Venice 1989, no. 143/1; Cat.
Florence 1997, no. 190; Archibald 1998, 319, pl. 21). Stjanovo (formerly Raduvene):
Cat. Montreal 1987, 176, no. 265; Cat. Venice 1989, no. 142/2; Archibald 1998, 320,
pl. 28. Rogozen Treasure: Fol et al. 1989, nos. 40-41.
Galanina 1997, 212.
Alekseev (2003, 104, n. 69) suggests that most of them were manufactured either at
the very beginning of Assurbanipal rule or even during the rule of Assarchadon.
Galanina 1997, 102.
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101 Kisel 2003, 100-103.

102 Vakhtina 2000, 57-58.
103 Mantsevich 1958a, 196-202; Kisel 2003, 80-83, 133, no. 41; Alekseev 2003, 382, fig.
10.16.
104 Bandurovskij et al. 1998, 148, fig. 41; Bandurovskij & Chernenko 1999, 27; Bandurovskij & Bujnov 2000, 65-66, fig. 541; Kisel 2003, 81-83, 133, no. 42; Alekseev
2003, 382, fig. 10.15; Chernenko 2004, 95-96, fig. 2.
105 Cat. London 2005, 122, no. 120. See also a bronze rhyton with the terminal in the
form of the forepart of a bull and allegedly from Syria, now in Berlin (Cat. Berlin
2002, 140-141, no. 40).
106 Cat. New York 2000, 154-155, no. 94; Cat. Milan 2001, 242, no. 205; Cat. Moscow 2003, 26 (below).
107 Gorbunova 1971, 20-23, fig. 5; Cat. Leningrad 1985, 13, no. 1 with bibliography;
Vickers & Gill 1994, 130-132, n. 117 with bibliography, fig. 5.20; Cat. Malibu 2007,
219, no. 119.
108 A gold one with the protome of a dog: Galanina & Grach 1986, fig. 111; Cat. Bonn
1997, 89-90, no. 17; Vlasova 2001a, 21, fig. 2, 22, 24, fig. 4.1, 25-26, no. 2; Cat. Amsterdam 2004, 51, fig. 25; Cat. Malibu 2007, 219-220, no. 120. A gold rhyton with
the terminal in the form of a rams head: Galanina & Grach 1986, fig. 110; Vlasova
2001a, 22, 24, fig. 4.2, 26, no. 3. A gold and silver rhyton with the terminal in the
form of a lions head: Vlasova 2001a, 22, 24, fig. 4.3, 26, no. 4. On the dating of
the burial, see Vlasova, in Cat. Bonn 1997, 89; Vlasova 2001b, 130-131.
109 See n. 22.
110 See Filow 1934, 39-58. On the dating of the burial, see n. 22.
111 See n. 12.
112 Ivanov 1975, 14-21; Cat. Saint Louis 1998, 222-225, nos. 173-177; Archibald 1998,
264-265; Cat. Bonn 2004, 195-196, nos. 226a-e; Cat. Paris 2006, 68-78, nos. 12-16.
113 A rare exclusion is the find from Smela, see Appendix 1, no. 14. Also, one of the
glass scaraboids of the eight found in burial no. 2 of barrow no. 21 near the village
of Vishnevoe represents a subject which allows us to consider it as Achaemenid:
a man leading a loaded donkey (Boltrik & Fialko 2007, 82-84, fig. 10.5). Cf. a
gold plaque showing a Bactrian leading a camel from Takhti Sangin (Litvinsky
& Pichikyan 1995, 196-220).
114 A finger ring with an image of a flying duck, late fifth to early fourth century BC
(State Hermitage, inv. 1863 I/182; Nikulina 1994, fig. 64). A finger ring with
an image of a standing bull, first half of the fourth century BC (State Hermitage,
inv. 1863 I/384; Nikulina 1994, fig. 215). A finger ring with an image of a dog
gnawing a bone, first half of the fourth century BC (State Hermitage, inv.
1863 I/385; Nikulina 1994, fig. 271). Also found there was a cut-off chalcedony
scaraboid with an image of a double-headed capricorn of east Greek workmanship, first half of the fourth century BC (Moscow, State Historical Museum, inv.
44615; Nikulina 1994, fig. 301).
115 Cat. London 2005, 189.
116 Reinach 1892, pl. XVI, 10; Boardman 1970, pl. 1.5; Nikulina 1994, fig. 447; Boardman 2000, 166-167, fig. 5.27; Boardman 2001, 351, pl. 834; Cat. St Petersburg 2004,
31, no. 12.
117 zgen & ztrk 1996, 140, no. 95.
118 zgen & ztrk 1996, nos. 97-100, 102.
119 Curtis 1925, no. 98.
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120 A pair of omega-shaped bracelets with gazelles heads (Khoshtaria et al. 1972,
115, fig. 49; Chkonia 1981, 144-145, no. 54, pl. 27; Dshawachischwili & Abramischwili 1986, 22 (below); Rehm 1992, 66, no. A.91, fig. 35; Lordkipanidze 1995, 372,
col. pl. V.2; Cat. Saarbrcken 1995, 130, fig. 123, 298, no. 276; Cat. Berlin 2007,
47). Omega-shaped bracelet with the hoop of rectangular section and lion-head
terminals (Khoshtaria et al. 1972, 115, fig. 50; Chkonia 1981, 144-145, no. 55, pl.
28; Rehm 1993, 105-106, pl. 17.1; Lordkipanidze 1995, 372, col. pl. V.1 (above);
Cat. Saarbrcken 1995, 149, fig. 148 (above), 298, no. 277; Knauss 2006, 85, fig. 4
(left); Cat. Berlin 2007, 48). Omega-shaped bracelet with the hoop of rectangular
section and bull-head terminals (Khoshtaria et al. 1972, 115, fig. 50; Chkonia 1981,
144-145, no. 56, pl. 28; Rehm 1993, 106, pl. 17.2; Cat. Saarbrcken 1995, 149, fig. 148
(below), 298, no. 277; Lordkipanidze 1995, 372, col. pl. V.1 (below); Knauss 2006,
85, fig. 4 (right); Cat. Berlin 2007, 49). The shapes and the rectangular sections of
the two latter bracelets are comparable with the finds from Corinthian Isthmus
(Rehm 1992, 47, no. I.7; Koch 1992, 220, pl. 26; Rehm 1993, 105, pl. 16) and from
Ikiztepe in eastern Lydia (zgen & ztrk 1996, 178-179, no. 130; Meriboyu
2001, 96-97).
121 Chkonia 1981, 40-46, 144, 151, pl. 24, no. 49; Lordkipanidze 1991, pl. 53.1a; Lordkipanidze 1995, 379, col. pl. VI.1-2; Rehm 1993, 107, pl. 17.4-5; Dshawachischwili
& Abramischwili 1986, 21; Boardman 2000, 196-197, fig. 5.80; Boardman 2002,
19-22; Cat. Berlin 2007, 46.
122 Gamkrelidze 1998, 211-216; Knauss 1999, 218-222; Knauss 2006, 82, 84, fig. 3.
123 Tsetskhladze 1993/1994, 31; Braund 1994, 122-127. On the problem of the borders
of Achaemenid satrapies in the Trans-Caucasian area see, for example, Lordkipanidze 2000, 11; Lordkipanidze 2001, 182-185; Jacobs 2000, 93-102; Ter-Martirosov
2000, 243-252.
124 It was originally dated by Ya.I. Smirnov within the frame of the sixth to fourth
century BC; cf. Lordkipanidze 2001, 182: late fourth to early third century BC;
cf. Lordkipanidze 1989, 323, n. 13; Lordkipanidze 1994, 153, n, 40: second half of
the fourth or early third century BC. On the silver phialae from Akhalgori, see
Smirnov 1934, 44-47, nos. 61-65, pls. VIII-XII; Luschey 1939, 61, nos. EB4-5; AbkaiKhavari 1988, 106, nos. F1c14-15, 117-118, fig. 2; Lordkipanidze 2001, 166-171, figs.
8-11; Knauss 2006, 81-82, fig. 1. On the earrings with horse pendants, see n. 72.
125 Uvarova 1900, 139-155; Tallgren 1930, 109-182. See especially a fifth century BC
silver phiale with an Aramaic inscription, allegedly of Asia Minor production
(Uvarova 1900, 140, fig. 119; Smirnov 1909, pl. 3, no. 13; Tallgren 1930, 116-118,
no. 1, fig. 4; Luschey 1939, 61, no. EB3; Abkai-Khavari 1988, 106, no. F1c16;
117-118, fig. 2; Boardman 2000, 191-192, fig. 5.73, 247, n. 133 with bibliography;
Lordkipanidze 2001, 168, n. 101.
126 Dzhavakhishvili 2007, 117-128.
127 rakelyan 1971, 143-158; Lukonin 1977, 72 (ill.), 76 (ill.), 80 (ill.); Dandamaev &
Lukonin 1989, 262-264, figs. 30-31a-b; at. Nantes 1996, 197-201, nos. 181-183;
Hacatrian & Markarian 2003, 9-20; Khachatrjan & Margarjan 2003, 114-122. On a
rhyton with a bull protome of possible Asia Minor manufacture, see also Pfrommer 1983, 270-271, figs. 34-35, 279; Summerer 2006, 135-143, pls. 1.2, 2.2. J. Boardman (2000, 187, fig. 5.68) compares the style of the latter with that of Greco-Persian
seals.
128 Tiratsjan 1968, 190-198, fig. 1; Abrahamian 1983, fig. 11; Cat. Nantes 1996, 196,
no. 180 with bibliography; Boardman 2000, 194.
263
129 Total of five vessels: three from cache no. 2 in barrow no. 1; one from cache no.
1 in the same barrow; and one from barrow no. 4.
130 Total of three vessels: two from barrow no. 1; and one from barrow B.
131 See n. 49.
132 Saveleva & Smirnov 1972, 115, fig. 5.
133 Cat. New York 2000, 152-153, no. 93; Cat. Milan 2001, 240-241, no. 204; Cat. Moscow 2003, 18 above; Treister 2008, 160-162, fig. 7.
134 Cat. Vienna 2000, 200, 204-205, no. 116.
135 It is maintained that originally the treasure consisted of ca. 360 silver vessels,
some of which found their way to different museums in Iran. Several pieces are
in the Miho Museum, two vessels are in the Louvre and one is in the Metropolitan
Museum. Individual pieces have been sold at auction: by Sothebys (1996) and
Christies (1999) in New York; and Bonhams in London (2003). A considerable part
of the treasure is most probably kept in the collection of H. Mahboubian (London)
and has been published by the owner (Mahboubian 1995). On the Western Cave
Treasure, see, for example, Van Rijn; Muhly 2004.
136 Jablonskij & Meshcherjakov 2007, 57, fig. 3, col. pl. 1; Cat. Orenburg 2008, 90, no.
5; Yablonsky 2007, 88, 93, fig. 7; Balakhvantsev & Jablonskij 2008, 29-38; Treister
2008, 158-160, fig. 6.
137 See n. 37.
138 See n. 37.
139 See n. 37.
140 See n. 40.
141 Filow 1934, 200, fig. 212; Reade 1986, 80, no. 24, pl. II; Cat. London 2005, 125, no.
129.
142 In contrast to the vessels shown in the hands of the Lydians, which demonstrate
vertical fluting on the body and rim, decorated with a pearl pattern at the junction of the body and the neck (Ghirshman 1964, 174, fig. 220; Calmeyer 1993,
152-153, pl. 44 (above); Cat. London 2005, 106, fig. 46; Cat. Speyer 2006, 132, fig.
7), the amphora-rhyta in the hands of the Armenians have undecorated bodies
(Ghirshman 1964, 176, fig. 222; Luschey 1983, 314-315, pl. 59.1; Calmeyer 1993,
153, pl. 43 (below left); von Gall 1999, 158, fig. 9; Boardman 2000, 188, fig. 5.69;
Summerer 2003, 33; Cat. Speyer 2006, 198, fig. 5). Thus, it may be maintained that
the reliefs from Persepolis could reflect the regional peculiarities of the decoration
of the vessels, and that the vessel from Filippovka demonstrates clear parallels
with the vessels held by the members of the Lydian delegation.
143 Cat. New York 2000, 156, no. 95; Cat. Milan 2001, 243, no. 206; Cat. Moscow 2003,
27 (below); Treister 2008, 162-163.
144 Miller 1993, 126, pl. 29.1; Platz-Horster 2005, 299-300, figs. 9-10; Cat. Speyer 2006,
183.
145 Pfrommer 1985, 14-16, figs. 6-9; Pfrommer 1987, 86-91, pls. 60-61; Pfrommer 1990a,
207-208, pl. 43.
146 See, in general, Archibald 1998, 266-267, fig. 11.7. See, for example, on the jugs
from the Rogozen Treasure (Fol et al. 1989, nos. 145-149; Cat. Bonn 2004, 294,
nos. 251-52); on the jug from the barrow near Rosovets (Filow 1934, 170, pl. XI.1;
Luschey 1983, 328, B19, fig. 62.4 Luschey considers the shape of the vessel to be
Achaemenid; Cat. Bonn 2004, 232, no. 238a); on the jug from Kirklareli (Pfrommer
1985, 14-15, fig. 6). See also a silver jug from a set of silverware of the second half
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of the fourth century BC in the Fleischman Collection (Cat. Malibu 1994, 75-76,
no. 31B).
Cat. Toledo 1977, 42, no. 12.
Fol et al. 1989, nos. 82, 97; Cat. Saint Louis 1998, 156, nos. 85-86.
Fol et al. 1989, nos. 145-149; Cat. Bonn 2004, 294, nos. 251-52
Cat. New York 2000, 154-155, no. 94; Cat. Milan 2001, 242, no. 205; Cat. Moscow
2003, 26 (below); Treister 2008, 163-164, fig. 8.
See n. 12.
Cat. New York 2000, 88-89, no. 19; Cat. Milan 2001, 191, no. 130; Cat. Moscow
2003, 15 (above); Treister 2008, 164.
zgen & ztrk 1996, 108, no. 63.
zgen & ztrk 1996, 133, no. 88.
Moorey 1988, 231-246.
See the silver-and-gold greaves from Mogilanska Mogila near Vratsa (Cat. Saint
Louis 1998, 159, no. 89) and from Agighiol (Cat. Frankfurt 1994, 162, no. 49.3),
and a head-shaped vase from Mastjugino barrow (Mantsevich 1958b, 317-333).
Treister 2009 a; Treister 2009 b.
Rostovtsev 1918, 6, no. 7, pl. I.2; Rostovtzeff 1922, 123, pl. 24.1 (below); Ebert
1927/1928, 317, pl. 112Ac; Luschey 1939, 43, no. GB 25; Iessen 1952, 217-218, fig. 9;
Saveleva & Smirnov 1972, 119; Abkai-Khavari 1988, 107, 110, 125-126, no. F3c16;
Mordvintseva 1996, 156, fig. 1 (below); Berlizov 1997, 105, fig. 6; Cat. Mantua 1998,
no. 456; Zuev 2000, 309, 314-317, pl. III.1-3; Zuev 2003, 21-22, pl. 11; Livshits 2001,
161 (with erroneous information that the phiale was stolen from the Museum of
Kazakhstan), 162 (ill.); Livshits & Zuev 2004, 4, fig. 2; Treister 2008, 146-155, figs.
3-4. On the inscription, see Livshits 2001, 162 (below); Livshits & Zuev 2004, 10;
cf. Meshcherjakov et al. 2006, 112-113 with the dating of the burial not later than
the third century BC.
Rostovtsev 1918, 6, no. 7, pl. I.1; Rostovtzeff 1922, 123, pl. 24.1 (above); Schefold
1938, 13; Luschey 1939, 61, no. EB7, 72-73; Iessen 1952, 217-218, fig. 10; Saveleva
& Smirnov 1972, 119; Pfrommer 1987, 98, nn. 582-583, 158; Abkai-Khavari 1988,
107, 108, 125-126, no. F3c17; Mordvintseva 1996, 156, fig. 1 (above); Berlizov 1997,
105, fig. 7; Zuev 2000, 309, 314-317, pl. IV.1-2; Zuev 2003, 21-22, pl. 8; Livshits
2001, 163 (ill.); Livshits & Zuev 2004, 4, fig. 1; Treister 2008, 146-155, figs. 1-2. On
the inscription, see Livshits 2001, 163 (below); Livshits & Zuev 2004.
Balakhvantsev & Jablonskij 2006, 98-106; Treister 2008, 155-158, fig. 5.
Treister 2008, 158; Treister 2009 a.
Pfrommer 1987, 56-61, 234-236, nos. KaB M1-16; Archibald 1989, 14; Archibald
1998, 169-170; Zimmermann 1998, 36-42, 160-161, nos. BM 1-19.
From the late fourth century BC burial in Buccino near Salerno (Cat. Paestum
1996, no. 37.37; Cipriani et al. 1996, 21; Cat. Trieste 2002, 260-261, no. 88.27.
From the treasure of the second half of the fourth century BC found near Vurbitsa
in the Shumen region (Filow 1934, 173, fig. 189; Pfrommer 1987, 70, 232, no. KaB
H 15; Cat. Cologne 1979, no. 317; Cat. Montreal 1987, no. 365; Cat. Venice 1989,
185, no. 147.1, 193 (ill.); Archibald 1989, 13-14, fig. 1Bf; Cat. Florence 1997. no. 98;
Archibald 1998, 270-271, fig. 11.10-11, pl. 33; Zimmermann 1998, 37-40, 161, no.
BM 18.
Treister 2008, 157-158; Treister 2009 b.
Jablonskij & Meshcherjakov 2007, 58, fig. 5, col. pl. 1; Cat. Orenburg 2008, 81, no.
2.
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167 Jablonskij & Meshcherjakov 2007, 57-58, fig. 4, col. pl. 2; Yablonsky 2007, 89, 95,
fig. 9; Cat. Orenburg 2008, 88-89, no. 14.
168 Dalton 1964, 37, nos. 136-137, pl. XX.
169 Saveleva & Smirnov 1972, 115-116, fig. 6; Smirnov & Popov 1972, 221 (ill.).
170 See n. 167.
171 Dalton 1964, no. 136, pl. XX; Rehm 1992, 80, 86, no. C4, fig. 59.
172 Rehm 1992, 79, 86, no. C3, fig. 58.
173 Akurgal 1961, 173, fig. 117; Pfrommer 1990b, 342, no. TA 121; Rehm 1992, 43-44,
70, no. A.117, fig. 52.
174 Dalton 1964, no. 116, pl. I; Pfrommer 1990b, 341, no. TA 116; Koch 1992, 220, 222,
pl. 27; Rehm 1992, 44-47, 70, no. A.118, fig. 53; Cat. London 2005, 138-139, no.
153. See also the same modelling of hindquarters on the bracelet with terminals
in the form of winged goats from the Oxus Treasure (Dalton 1964, no. 137, pl.
XX; Cat. London 2005, 142-143, no. 168).
175 See, for example, a gold torque from the burial on the acropolis of Susa (Cat. New
York 1992, 245-246, no. 171; Cat. London 2005, 174-175, no. 270). Gold torque or
bracelets from the Oxus Treasure (Dalton 1964, nos. 117-118, 125, fig. 65, pl. XVII;
Cat. London 2005, 139, nos. 154-156).
176 Rostovtsev 1918, 21, pl. VI.10-12; Iessen 1952, 217, fig. 8; Saveleva & Smirnov
1972, 119; Cat. Mantua 1998, no. 259.
177 Balakhvantsev & Jablonskij 2007, 145, figs. 2-3; Cat. Orenburg 2008, 131, no. 113.
178 Ankara, Museum of Anatolian Civilizations, inv. 15124 (Bingl 1999, 136, no. 147).
Bingl compares the image with that on the Achaemenid bulla from Daskyleion
(Akurgal 1961, 174, fig. 123). See also a contour gold plaque from the Oxus Treasure (Dalton 1964, no. 38, pl. XIII).
179 Ivanov et al. 1984, 20, no. 17, fig. 21; Dandamaev & Lukonin 1989, 267, fig. 35;
Rehm 1992, 125, 138, no. E.84, 400, fig. 92.
180 at. Vienna 1999, 65-67, no. 28; at. Miho 2002, no. 33; Bernard & Inagaki 2000,
1371-1437; Bernard & Inagaki 2002, 207-210.
181 Ghirshman 1964, fig. 332; Zahn 1967 [add to bibliography], 18-19, fig. 3; Cat. New
York 1992, no. 178; Rehm 1992, 154, 171 F.106, fig. 132; at. London 2005, 174-175,
no. 269.
182 at. Berlin 1978, no. 178; Musche 1992, 271-272, type 6.2.2; Rehm 1992, 148, 169,
F.93, fig. 120; The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, Spring 1992. Ancient Art.
Gifts from the Norbert Schimmel Collection, XLIX, 4, 18, inv. 1989.281.33; Koch 1992,
222, pl. 32.
183 See Cat. New York 1992, 242; Cat. London 2005, 174.
184 Elayi & Elayi 1992, 265-270.
185 Cat. Orenburg 2008, 99, no. 42.
186 Sevin et al. 1998, 312, figs. 8-9, 320, no. 17.
187 See, for example, a rhyton from the former N. Schimmel Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art; see n. 14.
188 See nn. 22, 37-40, 136 (except for the vessel in the Pomerance Collection). See also
the handles of the gold vessel from Filippovka (see n. 133) and a silver handle
from a treasure found at Babylon (see n. 141).
189 See, for example, the gold omega-shaped bracelets from Filippovka burial no. 4
barrow no. 4/2006 (see n. 167); the gold torque from the same burial (see n. 166);
on the gold bracelets with lion-griffin terminals from Da Kizilca Ky near
Manisa, see n. 173; and from the Oxus Treasure, see n. 174.
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190 See the sculpted handles in the form of ibexes in Berlin and Paris (see nn. 19-20);
a silver-gilt vessel in a private collection (Ghirshman 1964, 254-255, fig. 307); a
silver handle in the form of a stag from the Siberian Collection (Rudenko 1962,
54, pl. XII, 1; Ivanov et al. 1984, 20, no. 18, fig. 12).
191 Cat. New York 2000, 80-81, nos. 5-6; Cat. Orenburg 2008, 86, no. 9, 98, nos. 39-40,
118, no. 84.
192 Akishev 1978, 105, pl. 24 (right).
193 ugunov et al. 2006, pl. 26, 121, no. 13.
194 ugunov et al. 2006, pls. 31-32, 123-124, no. 16.
195 Treister 2007, fig. 4. See, in detail, Treister 2009 a.
196 See n. 136.
197 Alekseyev 2005, 54; Alekseev 2006, 166; Alekseev 2007, 254.
198 Chernenko 1984, 50.
199 Vlasova 2001b, 130. On the inscription from the Seven Brothers settlement (ancient
Labrys) suggesting that the settlement was a capital of the Sindian Kingdom, see
Tokhtasev 2006, 1-62 with bibliography.
200 Treister 1982, 71, fig. 2 (the distribution map); Treister 1985, 126-139. See also new
finds in the vicinity of Phanagoria (Limberis & Marchenko 2007, 235) and in the
Kuban area (Tenginskaya: Beglova 2002, 303, fig. 8.1). Against my interpretation as
diplomatic gifts, see most recently Limberis & Marchenko 2007, 235. In favour of
my suggestion, see Archibald 2004, 11; Ladynin 2007, 235-252 with bibliography.
201 Saveleva & Smirnov 1972, 106-113, figs. 2-3; Savelyeva 1973; Schmitt 2001, 197,
no. 8 with bibliography.
202 Schmitt 2001, 199.
203 Balakhvantsev & Jablonskij 2008, 37.
204 Saveleva & Smirnov 1972, 110, 118, fig. 7; Savelyeva 1973, 5.
206 Berlizov 1997, 103.
207 Cf. Vogelsang 1992, 223.
209 This is a preliminary list, which is based only on the published materials. Also, the
information on the burial complexes is not complete. Despite numerous requests
to the curators of the Antiquities Department of the State Hermitage Museum, I
have not received the desired information about the contexts of some finds, about
which there is no data in the literature.
210 Vlasova 2001b, 131.
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Goldware and Silverware, Jewellery

2. Analysis of objects from the north Pontic area

incised decoration (Fig. 1).10 The rhyton is traditionally considered to be the

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rative pattern, the lotus-and-palmette chain, occurs on a wall decoration in

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and to identify it as an Achaemenid product.55 V.G. Lukonin dated it to the

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of the Alexandropol barrow, including a frontlet in the form of a sculpted

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4. Patterns of distribution of Achaemenid finds

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Pantikapaion116 with the motif of a pyramidal stamp seal from Ikiztepe117.

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A rosette composed of lily petals (nelumbo) is a characteristic element of the

now, on items of toreutics of the Achaemenid circle. Though some of the

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4.2.1.2. Vessels from Prokhorovka

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that is rather an Achaemenid-inspired item, executed in an early Hellenistic

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5. The means of distribution

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Fig. 20. The distribution of

Appendix 1. Achaemenid seals in the north Pontic area209

Blagoveshchenskaja near Anapa, which is dated to the mid-third century BC;

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Cornelian, on a gold chain.

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11. Nymphaion, barrow no. 5/1868, female burial.

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101 Kisel 2003, 100-103.

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Alekseev, A. Ju. 2003. Chronografija erropejskoj skifii. St. Petersburg.

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Calmeyer, P. 1993. Die Gefe auf den Gabenbringer-Reliefs in Persepolis,

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Lordkipanidze, O.D. 1991. Archologie in Georgien. Von der Altsteinzeit zum

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Minasjan, R.S. 1991. Technika izgotovlenija zolotych i serebjannych veej iz

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Schmitt, R. 2001. Eine weitere Alabaster-Vase mit Artaxerxes-Inschrift, AMIT

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