DISTORTED OVOID- SHAPED GOLDEN BREASTPLATE PLAQUE WITH FIGURES OF A PAIR OF PANTERAS 

This golden plaque is in a distorted ovoid shape with a length of 17.5cm and a width of 6.5cm in its bulged base and is 5cm in its tapered part. On this golden ornament, a pair of Bers, leopard-headed and dragon-necked mythological creatures are shown, one with horn and the other without These creatures are placed en face with their heads flamboyantly embossed and their bodies tending leftward amid floral patterns. The creature beneath has a larger body and mane with no horn and the creature above has a smaller body and horn. Two mythological creatures with floral motifs of a five-petal round flower and six-petal leaf-shaped flowers are punctuated by turquoise and chalcedony inlays. The choice to depict these creatures with and without horn evidently demonstrates the context of a couple of masculine and feminine creatures. The horned creature is feminine with a smaller body and its ribbed horn has three ridges. The maned creature is the masculine one with a larger body in bezels.