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Historical Archive: Hermitage through the fourth century State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia "Venus of Kostenki", limestone, 23000-22000 BCE, Hermitage "Venus of Kostenki" profile petroglyphs from Lake Onega, granite, 3rd-2nd millennium BCE, Hermitage, which have their own page head of figure holding spears from Chernovaya Burial Mound VIII, Okunev Culture, 1st half of 2nd millennium BCE, Hermitage fantastic animal, Okunev culture, 1st half of 2nd millennium BCE, Khakassia, Russia, Hermitage bird pendant fr. Khodzhaly burial ground, Caucasus, bronze, late 2nd-early 1st millenium BCE, Hermitage 16698 bird pendant fr. Khodzhaly burial ground, oblique view bone gryphon head with ram's horns fr. Teishebaini Fortress, near Yerevan, 7th c. BCE, Hermitage 17774 bone gryphon head, profile ibex finial fr. Minusinsk basin, bronze, Tagar culture 7th-3rd c. BCE, Hermitage deer/elk finial fr. Minusinsk basin, bronze, Tagar culture 7th-3rd c. BCE, Hermitage myrtle wreath, gold, 6th c. BCE, Hermitage ГP-19706 wood griffin fr. Tuekta barrow 1, Pazyryk culture 6th-5th c. BCE, Hermitage leather antlered tiger fr. Tuekta barrow 1, Pazyryk culture 6th-5th c. BCE, Hermitage 2179-912 swan fr. Pazyryk barrow 5, reindeer wool felt, Pazyryk culture 5th-4th c. BCE, Hermitage 1687-260 altar from Semirechye (Zhetysu), Kazakhstan, cast bronze 125 cm wide, Sakae culture 5th-3rd c. BCE, Hermitage СА-13760 Semirechye altar: border figures Semirechye altar: fantastic animal Chorasmian horse, 4th c. BCE-4th c. CE, Hermitage Gonzaga cameo, agate: 2 rulers, 3rd c. BCE or 1st c. BCE/CE, Hermitage ГP-19076, which has its own page Parthian ivory rhyton, 2nd-1st c. BCE, Hermitage CA-1504, which has its own page Leda and the Swan, agate cameo, 1st c. BCE Alexandria, in later gold mount ГP-12692 gold fibula with citrine intaglio: Nero as Helios and glass inserts, 1st-2nd. c., Hermitage ГP-21629 mold-blown glass beaker with standing figures, 1st to 4th c., Hermitage agate amphoriskos: Power of Love, Rome early-mid 1st c. CE, Hermitage ГP-12748 agate amphoriskos, oblique from below antelope, Roman glass bowl, north Italy c.25-50 CE, Hermitage Oп.18180 painted sarcophagus from Crimea, late 1st/early 2nd c., Hermitage П.1899-81, which has its own page marble gravestone fr. Crimea Chersonesus, 2nd-3rd c. with 6th c. Greek inscription, Hermitage Х-1039 Hermitage gravestones, oblique view Caracalla, onyx cameo, 3rd c., Hermitage ГP-12732 tiger wall painting fr. Toprak-kala palace (Uzbekistan), 3rd-4th c., Hermitage Bactrian dice fr. Zar-tepe (Uzbekistan), bone and stone, late 3rd-4th c., Hermitage sarcophagus from Cahors, marble, 4th c., Hermitage Ѡ-1209, which has its own page gold-glass: family, 4th c., Hermitage E.2039