Southern Tajikistan, BC. 1- AD. 1 - PLATE WITH THE SCENE OF "BACTORIAN ON THE HUNTING".

Engraved ivory. 21,3 x 6,2. Two riders (one of them - after being wrapped up back) shoot the bows in behave like a beast. Several mountain rams are killed, the hares and the fox attempt to be hidden from the hunters: the running and killed beasts fill entire field of plate. In the center of plate the wounded lioness by two arrows is depicted; shi attempts to save her two young, being besides and prepares to jump on hunter. As a whole the composition is very dynamic. Before or after of the beginning of 1C.
Лит.: Литвинский - Пичикян 1980, с. 128 - 129; Литвинский - Пичикян 1981б, с. 143; ЮТ № 107, с. 29.

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