title: The Warrior on Claps from Tillya Tepe
metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Skupniewicz, Patryk
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Maksymiuk, Katarzyna
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2021-08-18T12:15:18Z
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2021-08-18T12:15:18Z
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2021-06
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Skupniewicz P., Maksymiuk K. The Warrior on Claps from Tillya Tepe. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2021, vol. 66, issue 2, рp. 567–584.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.identifier.other
metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu02.2021.215
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.identifier.uri
metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/32783
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: Among the objects excavated in 1978 at the site of Tillya Tepe (Northern Afghanistan) by
  the Soviet-Afghan archaeological expedition led by Victor I. Sarianidi, the twin golden clasps
  from Burial III attract special and instant attention of any military historian or a researcher
  of ancient arms and armour. The identity of the personage(-s) on the Tillya Tepe clasps has
  quite rarely been studied. Scholars are usually satisfied with a generic term a “warrior”. Kazim
  Abdullaev has identified the personage as Ares-Alexander. Jeannine Davis-Kimball has identified
  the personage as Enaree, the castrated priest of one of the epiphanies of Great Goddess.
  Patryk Skupniewicz supported the latter identification associating the personages from Tillya
  Tepe clasps with the North Indian, mainly Gandharan iconography of Skanda Kartikeya who,
  as a war-god, was an Indian equivalent of Ares. This article establishes the correspondence
  between the images on Tillya Tepe clasps with the representations of enthroned and armed
  goddesses which are quite common in the iconography related to the discussed clasps. The
  armed and enthroned goddess has been identified as the Iranian goddess Arshtat on Kushan
  coins. The warrior depicted on the golden clasps from Tillya Tepe should be interpreted as a
  portrayal of Arshtat, whose image was borrowed from the iconography of Athena. The goddess
  is shown seated on the throne with griffin-shaped legs known already in the Achaemenid
  times in the pose developed in the images in the late Hellenistic period, which is in line with
  the date of the entire site.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: This research was supported by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Poland (grant
  No. 107/20/B). We would like to thank all the anonymous reviewers and Jowita Buńko for correcting the
  text.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 66; Issue 2
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Tillya Tepe
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Central Asia
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: arms and armour
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Alexander the Great
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Arshtat
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Enaree
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The Warrior on Claps from Tillya Tepe
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.type
metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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