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The art of the Scythians proper was part of specific zoomorphic style called the "Animal Style," which was typical of the Eurasian steppe nomads, although the "Animal Style" of the Pontic Scythians was itself an artistic tradition of its own and differed from the variants of the "Animal Style" of the nomads from eastern Eurasia.
Scythian art makes great use of animal motifs, one component of the "Scythian triad" of weapons, horse-harness, and Scythian-style wild animal art.The cultures referred to as Scythian-style included the Cimmerian and Sarmatian cultures in European Sarmatia and stretched across the Eurasian steppe north of the Near East to the Ordos culture of Inner Mongolia.
The horses' cheek pieces in these burials were largely made of bone or antler, and their iron terminals were decorated with carvings of elk, horse, or ram heads in the Scythian animal style of art; [42] [44] the bones used to make these came largely from domestic animals and only 10% were from wild animals, attesting of the importance of ...
Scythian culture and art took their definitive form to serve the interests of the Scythian aristocracy which was establishing its hegemony in West Asia over the course of c. 650 to c. 600 BC, [198] when it absorbed various West Asian elements; [97] Scythian dress and armour from this time, as well as the artefacts, motifs, style and technique ...
Horse attacked by tiger, Ordos culture, 4th–1st century BC. The cultures of the Scytho-Siberian world are characteristic for their art, which was made in the animal style. The cultures of the Scytho-Siberian world are recognized for three characteristics known as the Scythian triad: [18] [27] similar, yet not identical, shapes for horses ...
Later, under Greek influence, the art of the Pontic Scythians underwent an evolution, with the majestic stags being replaced by docile deer or horses or rams, the felines' designs changing from snow leopard-like into images of lions, and the birds of prey becoming winged griffins, although the central theme of the struggle between predator and ...
Choe Kwang-shik argues that Northern and Western influences are found in Silla art, specifically those from the Scythian nomadic peoples, which provided a direct link between Silla and the coastal area of the Black Sea. [5] Other examples of Scythian influence on the Silla Kingdom include the Bronze Horse-Shaped Buckle and the Silla Crowns ...
Decorated tapestry with seated goddess Tabiti and rider, Pazyryk Kurgan 5, Altai, Southern Russia c. 241 BCE. [2]The Pazyryk [a] burials are a number of Scythian [3] [4] [5] Iron Age tombs found in the Pazyryk Valley and the Ukok plateau in the Altai Mountains, Siberia, south of the modern city of Novosibirsk, Russia; the site is close to the borders with China, Kazakhstan and Mongolia.