A gold belt plaque of a Scythian funerary scene; Gold; 4th – 3rd century BC; Siberian Collection of Peter the Great. © The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, 2017. Photo: V Terebenin.
Scythian Funerary Scene
A gold belt plaque of a Scythian funerary scene; Gold; 4th – 3rd century BC; Siberian Collection of Peter the Great. © The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, 2017. Photo: V Terebenin.
The Idle Woman 
I am immediately inspired by this funerary belt buckle to think about my nordic roots with this image…the great yagdrasill tree and the great steed of odin with eight legs. This makes me think about the power of a man and a wife who had a horse each and who fought together. The previous image in this set shows two sythian archers…they look like a man and a woman back to back…standing their ground.