The plaques are decorated with a composition of threedimensional figures of two opposing two-humped camels, they bite each other in the back of the neck. Figures of camels are shown in profile and are significantly detailed. Camels have a powerful head with ears protruding backwards and clearly shown almond-shaped eyes. They are somehow intertwined in the fight, the neck and head of one of them passes under the belly of the other, one dug into the thigh, the second clung to the enemy’s hump. Camels are depicted in an expressive manner, the animal species are expertly shown.
The 5th – 3rd centuries BC
Bronze, cast
7.8 × 7 × 1.5 cm
Besoba, Western Kazakhstan
Excavations of M.K. Kadyrbaev