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Iron age Paryzyk tatoos Central Asia - 6th to 3rd centuries BC 🏺

(Left) Locations of the tattooed designs on the male body found in Burial Mound No. 2 at Pazyryk, a Scythian burial site in what is now Kazakhstan, 5th century bce, and (right) detail from the right shoulder and arm; in the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia. Idealised artistic rendering of Paryzyk tatoos, illustrations by D. Riday. Top : Right forearm tattoo Bottom : Left forearm tattoo Source : Caspari G, Deter-Wolf A, Riday D, Vavulin M, Pankova S. High-resolution near-infrared data reveal Pazyryk tattooing methods. Antiquity. Published online 2025:1-15. doi:10.15184/aqy.2025.10150 Tattoos from Pazyryk and Ak-Alakha. (a) Tattoo. Right shoulder, Pazyryk, Kurgan 5. (Adapted from Rudenko 1970: Fig. 53). (b) Tattoo. Left shoulder, from Ak-Alakha, Ukok Plateau. Source : Linduff, K.M., & Rubinson, K.S. (2021). Pazyryk Culture Up in the Altai (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429456374
aug 28, 2025, 2:15 pm • 17 6

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