Serpent

The figurine is a curved flattened rod which has a clear division into the head and the body. The statuette is covered with C-shaped ornament on the whole surface of the back and abdomen. 



Manufacturing technique

The nature of treatment of the surface is difficult to define. The ornament is made with a burin. Presumably, the indentations along the whole surface were made during the first step of decoration. On the second step, these indentations were changed in a chevron sign along the entire length. The "head" is probably made with a planning knife. The ends of the item are smoothed. In the "head" area there are some traces of cut marks and grinding. At the opposite end, we cannot find any traces of shaping. 


Storage location

The State Hermitage Museum

Inventory number

370-726

The Museum KAMIS

no

Size

Length - 173.95 + 37.01 mm (head)

Width - 16.47 mm

Thickness - 11.40 mm


Material

Ivory

Dating

19-23 th. years BP

Culture

Mal'ta-Buret' archaeological culture

The author of the excavations

Gerasimov M. M.
1929

Publications

Abramova Z. A. Paleoliticheskoe iskusstvo na territorii SSSR. – M.-L.: Izd-vo AN SSSR, 1962.  – S. 49. Tabl. LIII,7

Volkova YU. S. Iskusstvo malyh form Severnoj Azii v ehpohu verhnego paleolita. – Dissertaciya na soiskanie u. stepeni kand. ist. nauk. – Kemerovo, 2011. S. 67, 172-173. Ris. 13 - 1.

Gerasimov M.M. Mal'ta. Paleoliticheskaya stoyanka (predvaritel'nye dannye): rezul'taty rabot 1928/29 g. – Irkutsk: Vlast' truda, 1931. S. 17. Tabl. 10, i.

Kamennyj vek YUzhnogo Priangar'ya. Bel'skij geoarheologicheskij rajon. / Medvedev G.I., Slagoda E.A., Lipnina E.A., Berdnikova N.E., Generalov A.G., Rogovskoj E.O., Oshepkova E.B., Vorob'eva G.A., SHmygun P.E. – Irkutsk: Izd-vo IGU, 2001. – T.II. – S. 77, 83. Ris. 26 - 4.

Larichev V. E. Sotvorenie Vselennoj: Solnce, Luna i Nebesnyj drakon / V. E. Larichev; otv. red. V. I. Molodin; RAN, Sib. otd-nie . –Novosibirsk: Nauka, 1993. – S. 109.

Lbova L.V., Volkov P.V., Pankina A.I. Tekhnologicheskie aspekty proizvodstva mobil'noj plastiki v verhnem paleolite (zoomorfnaya skul'ptura Mal'ty) // V (XXI) Vserossijskij arheologicheskij s"ezd: sbornik nauchnyh trudov / otv. red. A.P. Derevyanko, A.A. Tishkin.– Barnaul: FGBOU VO «Altajskij gosudarstvennyj universitet», 2017. – S. 609.

Lipnina E. A. Mal'tinskoe mestonahozhdenie verhnepaleoliticheskih kul'tur: sovremennoe sostoyanie izuchennosti i perspektivy issledovaniya. – Dissertaciya na soiskanie u. stepeni kand. ist. nauk. – Irkutsk, 2002. S. 148, 169. is.RiRrrvsrnyfdapzhpko'rrrmiiriRis. 76 - 4.

Pankina A.I. Zoomorfnaya skul'ptura paleoliticheskoj stoyanki Mal'ta: tekhnologicheskij aspekt // Materialy 55-j Mezhdunarodnoj nauchnoj studencheskoj konferencii MNSK-2017: Arheologiya. – Novosibirsk: IPC NGU, 2017a. – S. 15.