Siberian Collection of Peter the Great

Siberian Collection of Peter the Great
Complete Siberian Collection of Peter the Great in the State Hermitage Museum. The right half of the display is for objects dated to the 6th-4th centuries BCE, while the left part covers the 3rd-1st centuries BCE.[1]
Approximate locations of the finds of the Siberian Collection of Peter the Great. Per Pankova and Simson ( , British Museum),[2][3][4] and per the State Hermitage Museum ( ).[5]

The Siberian Collection of Peter the Great is a series of Saka Animal art gold artifacts that were discovered in Southern Siberia, from funeral kurgan tumuli,[6] in mostly unrecorded locations in the area between modern Kazakhstan and the Altai Mountains.[7][8] The objects are generally dated to the 6th to the 1st centuries BCE.[7][9]

  1. ^ "Treasure Room panorama. State Hermitage Museum". State Hermitage Museum.
  2. ^ Pankova, Svetlana; Simpson, St John (1 January 2017). Scythians: warriors of ancient Siberia. pp. 34–54.
  3. ^ Pankova, Svetlana; Simpson, St John (1 January 2017). Scythians: warriors of ancient Siberia. British Museum.
  4. ^ "Presenting the Warrior Iron Age Scythian Materials and Gender Identity at the British Museum American Journal of Archaeology". American Journal of Archaeology. July 2018.
  5. ^ The map from the State Hermitage Museum only delineates eastern Central Asia, but the text mentions "It is now difficult to determine the location and type of looted mounds. They are scattered throughout Southern Siberia, the Urals and parts of Central Asia", hence the two blobs used to show the area defined by the Hermitage. In "Эрмитаж.ОМП.Статья". edu.hermitage.ru. State Hermitage Museum.
  6. ^ "Presenting the Warrior Iron Age Scythian Materials and Gender Identity at the British Museum, American Journal of Archaeology". www.ajaonline.org. July 2018.
  7. ^ a b Pankova, Svetlana; Simpson, St John (21 January 2021). Masters of the Steppe: The Impact of the Scythians and Later Nomad Societies of Eurasia: Proceedings of a conference held at the British Museum, 27-29 October 2017. Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. pp. 218–219. ISBN 978-1-78969-648-6. Inv. nr.Si. 1727- 1/69, 1/70
  8. ^ "Museum notice". 19 August 2019.
  9. ^ "Treasure room panprama". State Hermitage Museum.