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Scythian Gold Pectoral

Scythian Gold Pectoral



‎The Scythians (Col 3:11) buried a high-status individual in a tumulus (mound grave). This gold pectoral or breastpiece, from a fourth-century B.C. royal tumulus in today’s Ukraine, depicts people with domestic animals, interspersed with fantastic portrayals of griffins dismembering horses. While its full interpretation is obscure, it probably was intended as an amulet to protect the deceased in the afterlife. It is thus similar to the Hebrew high priest’s breastpiece in that both had a spiritual function but differs in that it served no known priestly or mediatorial purpose.
‎Exod 28:15–30, Exod 39:8–21, Col 3:11

‎Image by user Yakudza, from Wikimedia Commons. License: Public Domain

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