Archaeology & Antiquities
Howling Wolf
Permanent Exhibition
Details
- Author / creator
- Southern Siberia
- Object type
- Archaeology
- Date or period
- c. 500–200 BCE
- Dimensions summary
- Overall: 11.1 × 3.3 × 5.9 cm
- Site or findspot
- Findspot unrecorded
- Cultural period
- Ancient
- Place of origin
- Southern Siberia
- Acquisition method
- Purchase
- Credit line
- Purchased with the Hartley Bequest Fund, 1986
About this object
Its subject, size, materials, and naturalistic style suggest that this small sculpture was made by one of the nomadic peoples of Western and Central Asia—perhaps the Scythians, who, with the Medes, conquered the Assyrians. Works of art made by the Scythians and other nomadic groups are shown on the northwest wall of this gallery.
Materials and technique
Wood with shell inlays
