ARTIFACTS OF JEWELRY ART OF ACHAEMENIAN IRAN IN THE NOMADIC WORLD: COMPOSITION AND THE СIRCUMSTANCES OF GETTING
One area of concentration of golden Achaemenian jewelry V-IV centuries BCE identified in the steppes of SW Siberia (Siberian Collection of Peter I, bought from robbers for the tsar family). The second area of such artifacts concentration was the South Ural where they were founded in archaeological context for men and for women and their diversity was more fully documented. The composition of artifacts in both regions corresponds to the information of Greek and Roman authors on gifts of the “king of kings” for merits, on his diplomatic gifts and gifts in return. Both regions were far from the borders of the Empire, but were important areas of fur hunting (from the South Ural it was easier to deliver; therefore, it was also a key point of trade routes later). The jewelry wares demonstrates the costs incurred by the first “world Empire” to ensure a stable fur trade.