სკარაბეოიდი ხარის გამოსახულებით საქართველოს ს. ჯანაშიას სახელმწიფო მუზეუმის ე. წ. „ირანული კოლექციიდან“

Abstract

The article examines a chalcedony scaraboid (inventory number GF 431) belonging to the “Iranian Collection” of the Glyptic Fund at the S. Janashia State Museum, featuring a bull in profile with a lowered head on its surface. The artifact, which had remained unexplored, was now presented to scientific communities. Based on the identical glyptic characteristics, we dated the scaraboid to the end of the 5^th century BC and considered it a glyptic monument of the Eastern Greek circle. The article also discusses two silver shield rings featuring representations of bulls, which were discovered in tomb no. 24 in Vani, Western Georgia. Despite being from a significantly later time, these rings are part of the same cultural era. We identified one of them as an Eastern Greek glyptic artifact, similar to the scaraboid from the "Iranian Collection," and we linked the other, which shows a bull's head, to the Colchian local glyptic tradition. Both of the Vani shield rings were dated to the 4^th century BC.