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... century , offering the most impressive indications of a still poorly understood symbolic system . " By the fifth century , however , the purity of their individual images had largely disappeared . In place of the simple stag with ...
... century , offering the most impressive indications of a still poorly understood symbolic system . " By the fifth century , however , the purity of their individual images had largely disappeared . In place of the simple stag with ...
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... century , bird - heads appear superimposed on stag bodies . On a hammered gold plaque from Dubovaya , in the Dniepre region , dated to the fifth century B.C. , a standing stag displays a great beak - head on its shoulder . " A long ...
... century , bird - heads appear superimposed on stag bodies . On a hammered gold plaque from Dubovaya , in the Dniepre region , dated to the fifth century B.C. , a standing stag displays a great beak - head on its shoulder . " A long ...
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... century , of Greek images and ideals . Debased as it is , the Kul Oba stag functions as a catalogue of significant structures in late fifth and early fourth century Pontic Scythian art : the joining of predator and stag ; the ...
... century , of Greek images and ideals . Debased as it is , the Kul Oba stag functions as a catalogue of significant structures in late fifth and early fourth century Pontic Scythian art : the joining of predator and stag ; the ...
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animals antlers appear barrow beak-heads Bei Dao bird black-painted Bodhisattva body bronze Buddha Buddhist burial carved central century B.C. Ch'ien Liu Chavannes China Chinese Confucian crown cultural Dai Zhen dated decorative dragons Eastern Antiquities Emperor feline figure frontal Fu Xi fur-trimmings gold plaques griffon heads Hangchou headdress heavily stylized Hopei horse Hsiung-nu Hua-yen hybrid beast Ibid images imperial Inner Mongolia inscription Issyk Khitan Kuan-yin kurgan landscape Liao dynasty Liaoning literati Manchu Mongolia monk motif mountains mythic Neo-Confucian nomadic officials omens Pagoda Parinirvana pattern Pazaryk Photograph courtesy Plate poetry poets political portents predator Rect reign represented ribbons Round Ø Rudenko sculpture Scythian art Scytho-Siberian seal Sekino Shih Siberian Treasure silk Sitting lion soutache stone Sung symbolic Ta-t'ung Temple tiger Ting-hsien tomb tradition tree ts'ê Type Virginia Museum Wang Wu Shrines Wu Yüeh Wu-t'ai-shan Yin and Yang Zhu Xi