Letum non omnia fenit (об одном шедевре школы торевтов саков Жетысу)
Letum non omnia fenit (about one masterpiece of the Zhetysu Saka toreutic school)

Summary/Abstract: The archaeology of the Early Iron Age in Kazakhstan has rapidly expanded with new data in recent decades, including in the field of ancient art. To date, new complexes have been discovered in almost all regions of the country, indicating the existence of stable traditions in material culture, particularly in toreutics. The aim of this article is to introduce highly artistic artifacts from the early nomads’ kurgans located in the city of Almaty (late 5th — early 4th century BCE) into academic discourse. The cultural and chronological attribution of the finds involved not only searching for analogies but also incorporating anthropological and paleogenetic research data. The analyzed findings show thematic and stylistic parallels with the artifacts from the Issyk kurgan and the art of the Pazyryk culture. K.A. Akishev’s thesis regarding the existence of a Semirechenskaya school of Saka toreuts and the presence of transcontinental contacts between the populations of Western Asia and the Great Steppe is confirmed.

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