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Historian and bureaucrat Juvaynī sitting and writing in front of Mongol emir Arghun Aqa, a Mongol noble of the Oirat clan (fl. 1220 - 1275) from a 1290 edition of the Tarikh-i Jahangushay. Bibliothèque nationale de France.

Originally composed in three volumes in both Persian and Arabic, the work was lavishly illustrated and intended for wide dissemination throughout the Ilkhanate. Although around 20 illustrated copies were produced during Rashid al-Din’s lifetime, only fragments survive today. These manuscripts—preserved in collections in London, Berlin, Edinburgh, and Istanbul—are among the most important surviving examples of Ilkhanid art and represent the largest early corpus of Persian miniature painting.

Frieze Tile with Two Hunters, Iran, Ilkhanid, second half 13th century. MET (ID: 10.9.1) This frieze tile is molded in low relief and painted in luster over an opaque white ground with accents of turquoise and cobalt blue. The background presents a lush landscape of vegetal motifs and birds in flight, while in the foreground two horsemen stab a deer with their swords. The figures wear luxurious clothes, and the artist has taken care to depict different textile patterns on each. Luster tiles of similar quality, color scheme, and motifs decorated the palace at Takht-i Sulaymän, an important Ilkhanid imperial residence. (MET)

Scythian tattoos, Pazyryk, 5-4th century BC

Scythian jewelry, 4th century BC. Found near: 1 - Novosilka, 2 - Lazirtsi, 3 - Tahancha, 4 - Pryshyb

2. Scythian necklace, 5th century BC, burial mound near Vovkivtsi village, modern Ukraine

Pazyryk, Pazyryk Culture, leather ritual mask of horse

Bronze top in a shape it tree of life with tha figure of god Papai, Scythian, 4th cent. BCE, Nikopol, Dnipro region, Ukraine

Sword with gold hilt and scabbard, uncovered in Ukraine, Scythian, circa 400 BC

Culture: Bosporan Kingdom

recovered from the Chertomlyk Tumulus, modern Ukraine, ca. 5th-4th century BC, housed at the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg.

The Golden Pectoral from Tovsta Mohyla is a gold Scythian collar or pectoral discovered in a burial kurgan at a site called Tovsta Mohyla in modern Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine, in 1971 by the Ukrainian archaeologist Borys Mozolevskyi.

An Ovoo, a shamanic altar - Tsetserleg, 2024

Övörkhangai Province, Mongolia (2) (3) (4) (5) by Travel Archive

Inner Mongolia, 1964-65. Emil Schulthess