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loop; but as it would not hang in a normal position such a purpose would
probably only be possible if it were intended to accompany the dead.

Plate XXXV no. 7 seems entirely to lack all Chinese influence. Here too
the holes were certainly not accidentally made, but in this case they are placed so
that the object might hang in a natural way. The monkey astride a horse cor-
responds to the hooks of Plate XXIX no. 3, but more primitively and summa-
rily treated, and so lacking in careful details that its date must be brought
forward into the II millennium. The monkey has been replaced by a loop
above the saddled horse of Plate XXXV no. 8, that is otherwise so similar to the
preceding example that we are able to give it the same date. A monkey eating
fruit, cast in two halves (Plate XXXV no. 9), is a repetition of the rider of Plate
XXXV no. 7 and stylistically certainly belongs to the II millennium. This
crouching animal, moreover, goes back to very ancient Steppe models. We
may remember the monkey with its young, carved in bone, found by Radloff in
a tomb in the Altai (6), which must be dated Han, and which is proof that this
motive survived for more than a thousand years with little alteration, unless a
weakening in form should be so considered.

The ram-head (Plate XXXV no. 10), is so well modeled that it may be
placed at the end of the I millennium in spite of its somewhat summary
treatment. The same date seems possible for the doubled human-heads (Plate
XXXV no. 11), the features and hair arrangement of which are not in the
least Chinese. The motive itself is part of the original inheritance from the
Near East. It has already reached the Eurasiatic Steppes in the pre-Scythian
period of the Caucasus about 800 B.C. (example in the Historical Museum of
Moscow, unpublished). The heaviness of this object suggests that it may
have served as a weight, as it appears too heavy to have been designed as a
pendant. In any case, had it been so used, it would have had to be suspended
upside down.

The bird (Plate XXXV no. 12) which may be a duck, has no parallel although
the loop on its back leaves no doubt as to its purpose. Small accessories could
be attached to the breast and to each end of the transversal bar which is pierced.
The date of this object should also be about 1000.

The probable date for all the flat pendant drops is about the year 1000. The
loop on the object of Plate XXXV no. 13 combines its use as a pendant with
that of an applique, as is the case with other examples of this type. The large
protuberances at the back correspond to those of an applique. The hare seems
well observed but with stylized details.

The pendants (Plate XXXV nos. 14 & 15), certainly unrecognisable as such,
have adopted without alteration the tiger and the hare of the harness-appliques
on Plate XXX no. 4. As for the stags (Plate XXXV nos. 16 & 17), once more
to be hung only upside down, the first corresponds artistically with the above