Pazyryk Carpet Hermitage

Model of horse head wearing bridle.

Pazyryk carpet hermitage.

Discovered in a state of almost perfect preservation it was pulled from a royal tomb in the pazyryk valley of siberia russia and has been dated to around the 5 th century bc. He put forward the hypothesis that the rug is actually not depicting scythians but armenians. The exact origin of this unique carpet is unknown. The find was a rare example of a single woman given a full ceremonial burial in a wooden chamber tomb in the fifth century bc accompanied by six horses.

The state hermitage museum. And two pieces of woven persian fabric state hermitage museum st. The oldest carpet in the world the pazyryk valley in siberia s altai mountains was the site of a remarkable archaeological discovery in 1949. Many of the pazyryk felt hangings.

Pazyryk altai 2nd bashadar barrow 6th or 5th c. Bce date uncertain but earlier than other pazyryk graves. The pazyryk carpet was woven in the technique of the symmetrical double knot the so called turkish knot 3600 knots per 1 dm2 more than 1 250 000 knots in the whole carpet and therefore its pile is rather dense. The most famous undisturbed pazyryk burial so far recovered is the ice maiden or altai lady found by archaeologist natalia polosmak in 1993 at ukok near the chinese border.

The pazyryk carpet most likely came from central asia though it is really a tossup between persia or armenia. The oldest carpet in the world is the pazyruk carpet which was found in 1949 by sergei rudenko a russian anthropologist and archaeologist. Feb 15 2016 explore sunnifa heinreksdottir s board pazyryk followed by 276 people on pinterest. Red and ochre predominate in the carpet the main design of which is of riders stags and griffins.

At the time archaeological excavations have been ongoing since the 1920 s and many historical items belonging to the nomadic peoples of the ancient times in this valley were already being unearthed but what. He found similarities at the ruins of persepolis in iran where various nations are depicted as bearing tribute the horse design from the pazyryk carpet is the same as the relief depicting part of the armenian delegation. There is a version of its iranian. Both nations have traditions of carpet weaving spanning thousands of years and the horses represented on the ancient carpet are nearly identical to horsemen on a frieze in the ancient persian city of persepolis.

At pazyryk these included the bodies of horses and an embalmed man whose body was covered with tattoos of animal motifs.