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啶犩�� [峁环耻 ] 64 heart-shaped motifs, characteristic of the treatment found on many psalia
zoomorphic images in the early Scythian period (analogous formulation of
horse-headed bone psalia from the Urartian site of Norshun-Tepe)".鹿 Two
bronze poletops in the shape of great bird-heads with hanging bells was
found from Ullsky 2, Kuban group (sixth century B.C.). Both these poletops
are in the form of great beak-heads with superimposed smaller beak-heads
marking the ridge of what would be the birds' ceres. The large beak-head is
a common element in early Scythian art, as is the backturned caprid found
on the more elaborate of the poletops. Along the projecting fold of the cere
smaller birds' heads have been represented by parallel lines in relief (Plate
5).2 On the more elaborately decorated specimen the scroll of the beak has
also been adorned with such parallel lines in relief. In the middle of this
figure yet another birds' head has been depicted, facing the opposite way.
Below it, the figure of a wild goat in the already familiar attitude with head
turned back and legs tucked up, has been moulded in relief. These two
poletops are among the finest achievements of Scythian art in the
decorative treatment of organic bodily forms. A pole top terminating in a
griffin head with an openwork body made of bronze (Plate 6) was found
from Kelermes.3 The body takes the form of a bulbous openwork over a
1 鹿 Ibid., p. 249.
2 Ibid., Fig. 113.
3 Ibid., Fig. 115.