page_title: Kostromskaya (rural locality)
hierarchical_section_title: Kostromskaya (rural locality)
caption_attribution_description: Català: Aquesta placa d'or en forma de cérvol tombat, datada en el segle VII aC i trobada en el túmul des Kostromskoy, a Kuban, és una de les obres més conegudes de l'art escita, en què aquest tipus de figures constituïa un motiu decoratiu molt freqüent. La figura del cérvol està realitzada de manera molt conscisa. La seua superfície està modelada amb plans precisos amb una aresta longitudinal característica al coll, la qual cosa es considera un dels trets més expressius de la tradició artística escita del període antic primerenc, tal vegada heretat de la tècnica de tallat en fusta, os, banya o pedra, tan popular en la tradició artesana dels pobles nòmades. Són molt característics l'allargament de les proporcions de la figura i la posa del cèrvol, amb els peus encollits el coll estirat cap avant i les banyes esteses al llarg de l'esquena amb nombrosos cresols en form de S. Les representacions de cérvols tombats es col·locaven en diferents objectes, fins i tot a les armes. A hores d'ara, la hipòtesia més acceptada és que aquestes plaques (o d'altres semblants) servien com a adornaments dels estoigs escites per als arcs i les fletxes. La peça fou fotografiada a l'exposició Ermitage. Tresors de l'arqueologia russa al MARQ.
context_page_description: Kostromskaya is a rural locality in Mostovsky District of Krasnodar Krai, Russia, located at the footsteps of the Caucasus Mountains on the Psefir River, 15 kilometers southwest of the town of Labinsk.
  With a population estimated in the hundreds, it is very agrarian and rural in nature and has many mulberry trees. The roads in the village are mostly dirt or rocky. The landscape is very mountainous.
  The stanitsa is also home to the ancient Scythian kurgan or burial mound of the 7th century BC where a Scythian gold stag was found, next to the iron shield it decorated. It is one of the most famous pieces of Scythian art, and is now in the Hermitage Museum in St Petersberg. Apart from the principal male body with his accoutrements, the burial included thirteen humans with no adornment above him, and around the edges of the burial twenty-two horses were buried in pairs. The kurgan was excavated by the Russian archaeologist N. I. Veselovski in 1897.
context_section_description: Kostromskaya (Russian: Костромска́я) is a rural locality (a stanitsa) in Mostovsky District of Krasnodar Krai, Russia, located at the footsteps of the Caucasus Mountains on the Psefir River (Fars' tributary, Kuban basin), 15 kilometers (9.3 mi) southwest of the town of Labinsk.
  With a population estimated in the hundreds, it is very agrarian and rural in nature and has many mulberry trees.  The roads in the village are mostly dirt or rocky.  The landscape is very mountainous.
  The stanitsa is also home to the ancient Scythian kurgan or burial mound of the 7th century BC where a Scythian gold stag was found, next to the iron shield it decorated. It is one of the most famous pieces of Scythian art, and is now in the Hermitage Museum in St Petersberg.  Apart from the principal male body with his accoutrements, the burial included thirteen humans with no adornment above him, and around the edges of the burial twenty-two horses were buried in pairs. The kurgan was excavated by the Russian archaeologist N. I. Veselovski in 1897.
caption: The famous gold stag shield plaque from Kostromskaya, 12.5 in/31.7 cm long, end 7th century BC
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