Pendant

The plate reminds the stylized figure of bird. The bird trunk is designated in the center by ring from thick wire d-1,5 mm, with soldered inside four cross-formed located lamellar leaf-shaped nests, forming a flower. Wings and bird’s tail are shown by set of nests of various forms-round, drop-shaped, quadrangular. Between nests and on edge, the plate is bordered by soldered tiny beads. In the top of pendant are traces of soldering of broken arch, tiny beads here are absent. For new arch in the plate were made two apertures in which put thin wire of 1,2 mm thickness which ends are bent and slightly flattened. On back surface are soldered three eyelets for fastening, one of them is torn off.
Date:2nd-1st c. B.C.
Material:Gold.
Technique:Stamp, soldering, graining.
Sizes: length 2.7 cm, width 2.6 cm, thickness 0.2 сm. Weight 5.3 g. Standard 900.
Findspot: Kargaly gorge, Almaty region. Accidental finding.