Confronted Dragon Pectrol

Item #: 4149

Date: ca. 2nd century BCE – 1st century CE

Medium: Gold

Size: 7 21/32" wide

Testing Reports:

Description: Hundreds of tiny scales are individually soldered to the writhing forms of two confronted dragons on this magnificent gold torc.  Thick curving horns sweep back over the long pointed ears of the rather wolf-like dragon heads.  With muzzles drawn into ferocious snarls, these mighty beasts express the formidable strength of the Scythians, one of ancient Eurasia's most powerful cultures.