Gold plaque with Demeter, 4th century BCE [d/b]

Gold plaque with the image of a woman’s head, second half of the 4th century BC, Scythian period.
A square gold plaque with a relief image of a woman’s head. The image is transmitted from the front. The face is full with large features. Her hair frames her face in lush waves. The curls fall onto the shoulders. A blanket is thrown over the head. On the neck there is a massive hoop – a hryvnia. To the right of the head is a torch. The entire image is framed by a border in the form of parallel convex ovals. A hole for fastening is punched in each corner of the plaque. Decorations of 67 plaques belonged to the veil of a woman’s headdress – kalathos.
The image refers to the image of Demeter, who, with a torch in her hand, is looking for her daughter Persephone in the underworld of Hades.
Rostov region, Azov region, Elizavetovsky burial mound, group of mounds “Five Brothers” mound No. 8, excavations of the South Don expedition of the Leningrad Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR and ROMC, expedition leader V.P. Shilov, 1959.