Siberian Collection of Peter the Great

Siberian Collection of Peter the Great
Complete Siberian Collection of Peter the Great in the State Hermitage Museum. The right half of the display is for objects dated to the 6th-4th centuries BCE, while the left part covers the 3rd-1st centuries BCE.
Approximate locations of the finds of the Siberian Collection of Peter the Great. Per Pankova and Simson ( , British Museum), and per the State Hermitage Museum ( ).

The Siberian Collection of Peter the Great is a series of Saka Animal art gold artifacts that were discovered in Southern Siberia, from funeral kurgan tumuli, in mostly unrecorded locations in the area between modern Kazakhstan and the Altai Mountains. The objects are generally dated to the 6th to the 1st centuries BCE.

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