大英博物館のインスタグラム(britishmuseum) - 8月18日 19時07分

This spiral neck ornament is decorated with feline predators, perhaps tigers. Their long tails end in vulture heads and are inlaid with turquoise. This piece of exquisite jewellery was made over 2,300 years ago by the Scythians – groups of nomadic warriors who controlled a vast area stretching from the edge of China to the Black Sea. Fantastic animal imagery appears across Scythian objects – on jewellery, weapons, clothing, saddlery and even tattoos – and carried a deep significance for them.

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Gold hollow spiral torc. Southern Siberia, 4th–3rd century BC. © The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, 2017. Photo: V Terebenin.
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