This statuette is reproduced from the bronze figurine, which is dated by the 9th century BC and found in Tavush. The figure represents a standing man. He is tall, with an emphasized phallus.
This statuette of a wolf is reproduced from the figurine cast in bronze, which is dated by the 6th – 5th centuries BC and found at the excavations in Ayroum. The wolf and the dog are connected with the underworld.
The souvenir was made in the likeness of a bronze statuette of the goddess Arubani found in the vicinity of Van dating back to the 8th-7th centuries BC.
“Sylloge Nummorum Byzantinorum. Armenia” Vol. III. Anonymous Folles. Class A. catalogue, Yerevan, 2016
History Museum of Armenia
Author: Hasmik Hovhannisyan