The Golden Deer of Eurasia

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Condition
Very Good: A book that has been read but is in excellent condition. No obvious damage to the cover, ...
Release Year
2000
ISBN
9780300085105
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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Yale University Press
ISBN-10
0300085109
ISBN-13
9780300085105
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1716945

Product Key Features

Book Title
Golden Deer of Eurasia : Scythian and Sarmatian Treasures from the Russian Steppes the Hermitage, Saint Petersburg and the Archaeological Museum, UFA
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2000
Topic
Archaeology, Ancient / General, History / Ancient & Classical, European, Silver, Gold & Other Metals
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Art, Social Science, Antiques & Collectibles, History
Author
Joan Aruz
Book Series
Metropolitan Museum of Art Ser.
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
3 in
Item Weight
74.6 Oz
Item Length
12 in
Item Width
9 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2006-034599
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
709/.3951/0747471
Synopsis
Spectacular works of art were excavated between 1986 and 1990 from burial mounds at Filippovka, in Russia, on the border of Europe and Asia. The objects were created from about the fifth to the fourth century b.c. by pastoral people who lived on the steppes near the southern Ural Mountains. The large funerary deposits include wooden, deerlike creatures with predatory mouths and elongated snouts and ears, overlaid with sheets of gold and silver, as well as gold attachments for wooden vessels and gold and silver luxury wares imported from Achaemenid Iran. These treasures are now in the collection of the Museum of Archaeology, Ufa, in the Russian republic of Bashkortostan. The discoveries at Filippovka open a new chapter in the history of the material culture of the nomads who in the first millennium b.c. traversed the steppe corridor extending from the Black Sea region to China. Yet the information provided by the Filippovka excavations is complicated and ambiguous. The identity of the people represented by the finds remains uncertain, but the forms and ornamentation of many works from Filippovka, as well as the cemetery's location in the southern Urals, argue for the cultural-chronological designation of this material as Early Sarmatian. Stylistic features, however, point also to the arts of Siberia, Central Asia, and China in the east and to the art of the "Meotian-Scythians" in the west. Imported Achaemenid goods raise questions about their place of production and about the circumstances that brought them to be included in tombs on the southern Ural steppes. Finally, robbers penetrated the burials in antiquity, destroying much of the evidence necessary for understanding the Filippovka nomads' religious and funerary practices. These are among the issues addressed in this volume, the catalogue for an exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art that brings together the remarkable new material from Filippovka and, from the incomparably rich collections of the State Hermitage, Saint Petersburg, related luxury objects found in graves of other Eurasian steppe tribes. Gold and silver objects from the Scythian Black Sea tombs; textiles and leather and wooden works from the Altai Mountains; and gold and bronze pieces from the Caucasus, Central Asia, and Siberia illustrate developments in the art of the steppes in the centuries preceding the Filippovka burials, in contemporary societies, and in later centuries, toward the turn of the first millennium b.c. These outstanding works not only place the Filippovka discoveries in their proper historical and cultural context but are themselves fascinating and enigmatic.
LC Classification Number
NK7106.4.S38G65 2000

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