The state hermitage museum.
Hermitage museum pazyryk carpet.
The exact origin of this unique carpet is unknown.
When it was found it had been deeply frozen in a block of ice which is why it is so well preserved.
There is a version of its iranian provenance.
While focus is on scythian gold from the steppes of western asia includes sections on the pazyryk finds in the altai of southern siberia.
There is a version of its iranian.
The exact origin of this unique carpet is unknown.
The carpet can be seen at the hermitage museum in saint petersburg russia.
The state hermitage saint petersburg and the archaeological museum ufa.
The pazyryk carpet was manufactured in ancient armenia or persia around 400 bc.
Its decoration is rich and varied.
The museum s website description of this ancient rug is as follows.
Petersburg russia the pazyryk rug was found in 1949 in the grave of a scythian nobleman in the bolshoy ulagan dry valley of the altai mountains in kazakhstan the pazyrk rug had been frozen in the ice and it was very well preserved.
Yale university press 2000.
One of the most remarkable finds was the pazyryk carpet.
The central field is occupied by 24 cross shaped figures each.
To our knowledge it is the oldest piled rug still in existence and is housed at st.
The pazyryk rug is one of the oldest carpets in the world dating around 5th c.
Bc now in the hermitage museum in st.
Joan aruz et al.