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Scythian gold ring dating to the 4th century BCE.

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Scythian gold and garnet necklace, no date given.

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~ Gold Torque Terminating in Scythian Horsemen. Place of origin: The Northern Black Sea Region Date: 4th century B.C. Place of finding: Crimea, the environs of Kerch, the Kerch Peninsula Archaeological site: Kul Oba Barrow Medium: Gold, enamel

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Scythian gold torque in the form of dragons, dated to the 2nd century BCE to the 1st century CE. From the source:

Hundreds of tiny scales are individually soldered to the writhing forms of two confronted dragons on this magnificent gold torc. Thick curving horns sweep back over the long pointed ears of the rather wolf-like dragon heads. With muzzles drawn into ferocious snarls, these mighty beasts express the formidable strength of the Scythians, one of ancient Eurasia’s most powerful cultures.

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Scythian gold torque, dating to the 4th century BCE. No source given, image found on Pinterest.

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The golden diadem of the Scythian princess Meda, found in the tomb of Philip II of Macedon. Aigai, Macedonia, Greece. 4th century BC [960x700]

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i was half drawing Queen Tomyris but she came out way more Turkic than Iranian so w/e somebody Central Asian I guess

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First posters for Akan Satayev’s Tomyris

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imma disappear to play more civ6 now

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Scythian axe and sword; gold, c. 5th century BC

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Gold Scythian ornament in the shape of a stag, dating to the 7th-6th centuries B.C.E.

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~ Dress ornament. Date: ca. 5th century B.C. Geography: Northern Black Sea region, possibly from Maikop Culture: Scythian Medium: Gold

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An arm from the throne of a Scythian king, 7th century BC.

Found at the Kerkesmess Barrow in Krasnodar Krai, exhibited in the Hermitage Museum.

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Tomyris by Veysel Kara 

Tomyris (/ˈtoʊmɪrɪs/; from Eastern Iranian: Tahmirih “Brave”)  also called Thomyris, Tomris, Tomiride, or Queen Tomiri, was a Massagetean ruler who reigned over the Massagetae, an Iranian people from Scythian pastoral-nomadic confederation of Central Asia east of the Caspian Sea, in parts of modern-day Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, western Uzbekistan, and southern Kazakhstan.

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Roundel with griffin heads       

Eurasian steppes, Sarmatian  (ca. 1st–2nd century)

Medium: Silver, gilding, inlays

From the Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Gold belt plaque: Scythians with horses under a tree

Siberia, 4th–3rd century BC

From The State Hermitage Museum