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The cauldron is bronze

Kostanay Regional Museum of Local Lore

Cast bronze boiler of the “Scythian type”, which finds the closest analogues among the boilers of the Minusinsk basin.
A tray in the shape of a truncated cone is soldered to the bottom of a hemispherical boiler with an elongated neck and an outwardly bent rim.
The corolla is designed in the form of a wound bent inside. Two horizontal horseshoe-shaped handles are soldered to the body of the boiler.
The body is decorated with two narrow belts, imitating a cord. The boiler is split in two and soldered with a liquid alloy poured on the outside.
Dating: IV century BC – II century AD, Naurzumsky Nature Reserve.
Material: bronze
Technique: casting
Size: h – 26 cm, d - 24.5 cm.

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