Wednesday, November 2, 2022

A Search Challenge

I recently stumbled across the picture above. This is a Sarmatian artifact said to be from a kurgan called Kobiakov 10. I have found two images, but both are focused on the seated man. Who is indeed intriguing, but y'all know me, I want to see the dragons. Or whatever they are. 

I can't trace this past here, although I did find one note that it is in the Rostov museum. 

If anyone can find a different image of this that shows the other panels more clearly I would be deeply appreciative.

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4 comments:

  1. ShadowNovember 2, 2022 at 2:58 PM

    I don't know if this is the same -- somehow the Sarmatians and Noah's ark have come together -- but there is a photo below of two dragons killing (biting) a horse. It's a clear picture and looks like the same type.

    https://anthropologyofgenesis.tumblr.com/post/110918027923/a-sarmatian-crown-found-at-the

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  2. KpgoogNovember 3, 2022 at 12:45 PM

    https://ofwolfandmanbook.wordpress.com/2020/02/12/sarmatian-wolf-torque/

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  3. G. VerlorenNovember 3, 2022 at 3:40 PM

    A quick poke through online sources reveals that there is an image of the torc unfurled and laid flat, but I can only get a too-small version of the image, with a proper resolution picture stuck behind a paywall.

    From what I can glean, there's a book which apparently is a source for some of the images online: “The Supreme Gods of the Bosporan Kingdom” by Yulia Ustinova. No clue which specific ones, though.

    I also found this Russian language website which speaks about the excavation in some detail, and which includes larger, but still low resolution, images (scans of photographs printed in a book, it seems). Perhaps most useful from this site is an extensive bibliography.

    Original site: http://kronk.spb.ru/library/guguev-vk-1992.htm

    Google Translated: https://kronk-spb-ru.translate.goog/library/guguev-vk-1992.htm?_x_tr_sch=http&_x_tr_sl=ru&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc

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  4. JohnNovember 4, 2022 at 7:30 AM

    Thanks everybody! Those are indeed dragons, and they are indeed battling dog- or wolf-headed men.

    Finding weird, wonderful bits of arcana like this makes me irrationally happy.

    John

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