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and a figurine of a warrior found near Dzhambul in South Kazakhstan.
They, along with a lamp excavated from a barrow by the village of Bukon
near Zaysan in East Kazakhstan, 1 are definitely closer to the northern
Semirechye 艢aka style. There are already over 20 Saka cult bronzes from
Kazakhstan and Kirgizia, and probably even more from Chinese Turkestan.
Excavations at the lli river sites have yielded bronze ornaments and
jewels with early indications of the animal style. Many objects have been
found, the majority of which can be attributed to the Sakas, Wu-sun and
Turks. Bes-Shatyr, on the right bank of the Ili river is a major 艢aka site. In
Kirgizya, covering the basins of the Issyk-kul and Balkhash Lake, a
number of kurgans have yielded objects, the majority belonging to the
nomadic tribes from the seventh century B.C. to fourth century A.D. The
艢akas inhabited the Tyan-Shan, Talas, and Alay mountains as well as the
Issyk-kul region. Figures of animals in an early 鈥淪cythian style鈥� were
found in the Semirechye, near Lake Issyk-Kul and near the Chu and Talas
rivers and at Sokuluk, west of Frunze.2 It is not always possible, however,
to draw a sharp line between the Saka period and the following period of
the Wu-sun. Ritual bronze utensils, discovered on the northern shores of
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鹿 M.I.Artamonov, Sokrovischa Sakov, Moscow, 1973 p.40,Fig.47.
2 G.Frumkin, 鈥楢rchaeology in Soviet Central Asia. III-Kirghiziya and the Fergana
Valley', Central Asian Review, Vol. 12, p. 18.