In 1986, during archaeological research on the south-eastern outskirts of the city of Azov, in the area of ​​a dacha community, there was discovered a very rich burial complex of the Sarmatian period. The burial mound had been robbed and completely destroyed in ancient times. However, the Primorsky archaeological detachment of the Azov Museum of Local History under the direction of E.I. Bespaly carefully studied the burial complex. And in the cache, which had been arranged in the grave and carefully masked before the burial, the archaeologists discovered valuable ancient objects — jewels. The dagger with a scabbard, bracelet, belt, set of horse harness and horse cape are now on view at the Azov museum-reserve.

The ancient artist made the extreme unit-cast, heavy figures using the lost-wax casting technique. To do this, first they would make a version of the future product from wax, then they created a refractory form after it from a special mass. Then they would heat it, the wax melted and poured out, and the cleared cavity was filled with hot metal. Then the figure was allowed to completely cool down and pulled out of the mould. But they used a different technique in the manufacture of these animals’ the double protome. The product, hollow inside, was assembled from individual fragments.