Saksanokhur gold buckle

Saksanokhur gold buckle
A nomad horseman spearing a boar, discovered in Saksanokhur, South Tajikistan. National Museum of Antiquities of Tajikistan.[1][2]
Materialgold repoussé, formerly encrusted with light blue glass plate (boar and frame areas).[3]
Size5.4 x 5.3 cm
Created2nd century BCE-2nd century CE
DiscoveredSaksanokhur
37°33′05″N 69°23′26″E / 37.5514°N 69.3906°E / 37.5514; 69.3906
Present locationNational Museum of Antiquities of Tajikistan

The Saksanokhur gold buckle is an ancient belt buckle in gold repoussé, discovered in the Hellenistic archaeological site of Saksanokhur, South Tajikistan. The plate represents a nomadic horserider spearing a boar, set within a rectangular decorative frame. The buckle is generally dated to the 1st-2nd century CE,[1][2][4] although Francfort dates it earlier to the 2nd-1st century BCE,[5] as do the curators for the Guimet Museum,[6] and the National Museum of Antiquities of Tajikistan.[7]

  1. ^ a b Marshak, Boris Ilʹich (1 January 2002). Peerless Images: Persian Painting and Its Sources. Yale University Press. p. 9. ISBN 978-0-300-09038-3.
  2. ^ a b Ilyasov, Jangar. "A Study on the Bone Plates from Orlat // Silk Road Art and Archaeology. Vol. 5. Kamakura, 1997/98, 107-159": 127. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  3. ^ Bobomulloev, Saldmurod (Director of the National Museum of Antiquities of Tajikistan) (2021). Tadjikistan : au pays des fleuves d'or. Paris, Gand: Musée Guimet, Editions Snoeck. p. 116. ISBN 978-9461616272. II-I siècles av. JC
  4. ^ Gruber, Martin; Il'yasov, Jangar; Kaniuth, Kai (2012). "A Decorated Ivory Belt from Tilla Bulak, Southern Uzbekistan". Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia. 18 (2): 367. ISSN 0929-077X. Another example would be the belt buckle from Saksanokhur (Southern Tajikistan). Cast in solid gold it is dated to the 1st-2nd centuries AD.29 Here too, a cymatium serves as orna- mental border surrounding a mounted warrior hunting a boar with a spear (Fig. 22).
  5. ^ Francfort, Henri-Paul (2020). "Sur quelques vestiges et indices nouveaux de l'hellénisme dans les arts entre la Bactriane et le Gandhāra (130 av. J.-C.-100 apr. J.-C. environ)". Journal des Savants: 39.
  6. ^ "Tadjikistan. Au pays des fleuves d'or – Guimet" (in French). Boucle avec scène de chasse au sanglier, Tadjikistan, Saksanokhur, 2e-1er siècle av. J.-C., or, Musée national des antiquités du Tadjikistan
  7. ^ Bobomulloev, Saldmurod (Director of the National Museum of Antiquities of Tajikistan) (2021). Tadjikistan : au pays des fleuves d'or. Paris, Gand: Musée Guimet, Editions Snoeck. p. 116. ISBN 978-9461616272. II-I siècles av. JC