Bronze plaque with a scene of struggle between two-humped camels.
Besoba burial ground, Kazakhstan. 6th-5th century BCE.
[Религии Центральной Азии и Азербайджана. Том I. Традиционные верования и шаманизм, Самарканд – 2016]
Gilded bronze plaque with Bactrian camel
2nd–1st century BCE
North China
M. Treister, „Imports“ from Central Asia and Siberia in the Burials of Asian Sarmatia of the 2nd–1st Centuries BC
https://www.academia.edu
Gold plaques with fighting camels [Kurgan 1], and gold ornaments with Bactrian camels (photo on the right) from Filippovka, 4th century BCE.
Inlaid gold plaque depicting a figure driving a camel; 1.9 x 1.6 cm.
From Takht-i Sangin, the Oxus Temple [Tajikistan]
“4th century BC-1st century AD. A bronze belt plate with openwork seated camel with hatching on the body to represent fur; border of plate decorated with wave pattern; to the front is hook in the shape of a bird head, small lug to the rear. From a London, UK, collection; acquired 1970s. 31 grams, 73mm (3″). Fair condition. Rare.”
Plate in the shape of a lying Bactrian camel. Black patina. Ordos, 3rd-1st century BCE 4.2 x 3.8 cm
Bibliography EC Bunker, Thaw Collections, op. cit. : n ° 92.An Ordos bronze belt plaque in the form of a reclining Bactrian camel. 3rd-1st century BC
Auction house BOISGIRARD – ANTONINI PARIS
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- The Silkroad in the History of the Ancient Period/Die Seidenstraße in der Geschichte der Antike, [in:] Die Krim. Goldene Insel im Schwarzen Meer. Begleitbuch zur Ausstellung in Bonn, Darmstadt 2013: 67-87. Marek Jan Olbrycht https://www.academia.edu
- M. Treister, „Imports“ from Central Asia and Siberia in the Burials of Asian Sarmatia of the 2nd–1st Centuries BC https://www.academia.edu
- Религии Центральной Азии и Азербайджана. Том I. Традиционные верования и шаманизм, Самарканд – 2016