IMAGES IN SCYTHIAN ANIMAL STYLE ON THE ARTEFACTS OF «CRIMEAN COLLECTION»

Article presents the results of the integration of the array of zoomorphic images on the objects from the «chance finds» collection stored in the Archaeological Museum of the Institute of Archaeology of NAS of Ukraine and published by S. A. Skoriy and R. V. Zimoviec, in the systematics of the images of the Eastern-European Scythian animal style created by the author, based on the latest data. The realized iconographic and statistical analysis suggests, on the one hand, the authenticity of most of the items of the «Crimean collection» (conditional term proposed by the author), decorated in the manner of the Scythian animal style, on the other hand, that these items can be initially located not only in the Crimea, but also in other regions of the Scythian archaeological culture, and primarily from the regions of the Kuban and the Middle and Lower Dnieper basins.