12-14-2007, 11:46 AM
Quote:Hello
then this is a sorrowful state of affairs .. too bad, perhaps they will do one in US one day soon eg I got the Golden Deer of Eurasia catalogue, very nice
by the way I started reading messer Rudenko's Frozen Tombs of Pazyryk - interestingly back then in the 1970s it was thought that at least some of the kurgan finds came from 3rd century BC, and not 6-5th centuries BC the way like Rudenko proposed. Anyway, the saddles and briddles are most interesting.. look similar to these Chinese ones form 3rd century as well as to the Saka belt plate of a resting hero under a tree
Too bad no arms nor armour were saved as the robbers had plundered these kurgans before the digs..
One of the kurgans contained a unique pair of greaves with scallopped edging. I don't know exactly what they were made of, but I think, IIRC, they are from kurgan 1-i.
Quote:Do you remember how long that Altai sagaris was.
Unfortunately, no. I didn't think at the time to estimate its length.
Ruben
He had with him the selfsame rifle you see with him now, all mounted in german silver and the name that he\'d give it set with silver wire under the checkpiece in latin: Et In Arcadia Ego. Common enough for a man to name his gun. His is the first and only ever I seen with an inscription from the classics. - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
He had with him the selfsame rifle you see with him now, all mounted in german silver and the name that he\'d give it set with silver wire under the checkpiece in latin: Et In Arcadia Ego. Common enough for a man to name his gun. His is the first and only ever I seen with an inscription from the classics. - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
