A zhetikara spear and the Sintashta-Petrovka burialtradition: reconstruction of the image and concepts

The author of the paper goes back to the earlier published Seima-type bronzespearhead, which is a chance find discovered near the city of Zhetikara in Northern Kazakhstan (Fig. 1). The socket of the spear features paired symmetrical figures of waterfowland horse protomae in relief The paper provides reconstruction of images and conceptsassociated with this item in the light of the Sintashta-Petrovka burial tradition and theIndo-Iranian parallels