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Axe bearing
depictions of a deer, a dog and arrows
9th-7th centuries B.C.
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Buckle Shaped
like a Human Figure Standing on a Deer's Head
First half of the 1st millennium BC
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The former study of Grand Duchess Olga Nikolayevna,
one of the daughters of Nicholas I, was decorated by Andrei Stakenschneider
in the mid-1850s. The display contains archaeological items from the
Bronze Age (2nd - mid-1st millennia B.C.) found during the excavation
of settlements and burial sites in southern Siberia, the northern
Caucasus and western Transcaucasia. Of interest here is a collection
of bronze pendants executed in the form of human and animal figures
(the Koban culture of the central Caucasus, 10th-4th centuries B.C.)
and mining and smelting tools belonging to tribes in the Altai: bronze
and horn picks, earthenware nozzles, stone moulds. |
