3RD-2ND CENTURY BC

Compare the similar plaque illustrated by A. Salmony, Sino-Siberian Art in the Collection of C. T. Loo, Paris, 1933, pl. XII (1). See, also, the related belt buckle of two raptors attacking two tigers illustrated by E. C. Bunker et al., Nomadic Art of the Eastern Eurasian Steppes, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2002, pp. 102-103, no. 70, which is also dated 3rd-2nd century BC.