The Golden Plate with the Picture of the Horned Animal from the Northern Altai: the Traditions of Animal Style and the Artistic Experiment
Journal: Povolzhskaya Arkheologiya (The Volga River Region Archaeology)
Year: 2022

The article is devoted to the analysis of the unique syncretical creature’s picture, depicted on the golden plate from the burial ground Karban-2. The golden plate with the picture of the horned animal was found in the near-bottom part of one of the robbed Pazyryk burial mounds. In this article there is a try to define the place of a two-humped “camel” with horns in the system of the figurative plot of Scythian Siberian animal style. The general stylictics of the representation of the character’