Virtual Collection of Asian Masterpieces

Earrings-Iunula

Materials Gold, semiprecious stones

Creator name Hun people

Creator date 2-3 Century B.C.

Where it was made West Kazakhstan

Acquisition It was acquired from West-Kazakhstan regional local-history museum in 2014.

Copyright West-Kazakhstan regional local-history museum

Owner Museum National Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan

© Virtual Collection of Asian Masterpieces, 2013

Golden man from Issyk barrow

Materials gold

Measurements 70cm

Creator name Saka people inhabited the territory of Zhetysu

Creator date Early Iron Age

Where it was made South-East part of Kazakhstan

Acquisition It was acquired from the “State Museum of gold and precious metals” in February 2014.

Copyright National museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan

© Virtual Collection of Asian Masterpieces, 2013

Noble Sarmatian woman from Taksay-1 barrow

Creator name Sarmatian people inhabited the territory of West Kazakhstan

Creator date Early Iron Age

Where it was made West Kazakhstan It was acquired from the State Museum of gold and precious metals in February 2014.

Copyright National museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan

© Virtual Collection of Asian Masterpieces, 2013