Protocols of winged horses with the horns of a goat
The basis of the sculpture is wood, a plate of gold leaf. Cut out of the tree protoms horses remained completely. The gold plate consists of two longitudinal halves, well fitted to each other and fastened to a wooden base with small bronze studs. A horns and ears are made separately and inserted into the slots on the head, bird wings – in the slots on the shoulder blades.
The 5th - 4th centuries BC.
Gold, stamping
Size 16.5 × 10.6 × 1.8 cm
The mound Issyk, Zhetysu
Excavations of K.A. Akyshev