A Nyíregyházi Jósa András Múzeum évkönyve 47. (Nyíregyháza, 2005)

Régészet - János Makkay: The Miracle Stag in Ancient Greek mythical stories and their Indo-Iranian counterparts

The Miracle Stag d. Chamfron ornament (headpiece of a horse's harness), found in the 2

nd kurgan of Pazyryk in 1947, and made in the form of a stag's head. The curious piece made from leather and wood represents an animal combat motif, where an attacking griffon holds the antlered head of a stag in its beak. The tips of the leather antler are topped with figures of long-necked cocks (RUDENKO 1951. 78., 307. PI. 25: 1 .).

20 This object, holding the head of a stag in its beak, was a headdress decoration for a horse (Fig. 13) (ARUZ ET AL. 2000., Catalogue no. 195., views 1-2., with further references.). The skin on the left arm of a male body, found in kurgan 2 of Pazyryk, conserved traces of tattooing, one detail of which shows a horse figure wearing an antlered mask (Fig. 14) (RUDENKO 1953. Fig. 83.). e. The barrow 401 of the Zhurovka Scythian cemetery (Kiev Province, Cherkassy Region), which dates to the 5

,h century B.C. contained a gold chamfron, with relief images of a recumbred stag in its upper part, and other repoussé-figures representing a bird, and also other bird's heads (Fig. 15) (GALANINA-GRACH 1986. Fig. 71. on p. 71.). :

" A similar (or the same?) piece: RUDENKO 1951. PI. 28:1., RUDENKO 1953. 307. PI. 84: 4., from kurgan 2. The restored chamfron: ORO 2001. Fig. 41. on pp. 78-79., ARUZ ET AL. 2000. Catalogue no. 195. - For an essentially similar representation see SAMASHEVMYLNIKOY 2004. no. 16. on p. 28.: fragment of a cheekpiece in the shape of a griffin with a herbivorous animal's [red deer] head in its beak, and with the schematic representation of an antler on the top of its head. See also SAMASHEV-MYLNIKOV 2004. Figs. 20-21. Fig. 10-11 10-11. kép 19