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Tamara Talbot Rice
ANCIENT ARTS OF
CENTRAL ASIA
The Great Goddess and a horseman
Scytho-Sakian period
![The Great Goddess and a horseman](http://warfare.6te.net/Ancient/Central_Asia-30.jpg)
A larger image of the Great Goddess and a horseman, Pazyryk, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg.
Illustration 30, p39 in Tamara Talbot Rice, Ancient Arts of Central Asia, 1965
30 Detail of a motif from a felt appliqué hanging probably showing an investiture scene.
The Great Goddess is shown holding a tree of life in her hand and granting audience to a rider. Pazyryk, fifth century BC
30 Wall-hanging (detail): the so-called Great Goddess being approached by a rider. Reconstruction.
Felt appliqué. Pazyryk, Mound 5, fifth century BC. c. 10′x 6′ (3.05 x 1.83 m). Photo: State Hermitage Museum, Leningrad
Detail of the rider who approaches the Great Goddess, felt applique, Pazyryk
See also 'Siberian gold and bronze belt buckles & plaques', an extract from ANCIENT ARTS OF CENTRAL ASIA by Tamara Talbot Rice
Scythian Rhyton with a Ritual Scene, Merdzhana, Transkuban, Late 4th - early 3rd centuries BC. Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, 2521-10