Humanities & Social Sciences 4 (2015 8) 585-592 ~ ~ ~ УДК 904:673.3 The Images of Reptiles on the Items Found at the Glyadenovsky Bone Bed Maria S. Koreniuk* Perm State National Research University 15 Bukireva Str., Perm, 614990, Russia Received 21.12.2014, received in revised form 22.01.2015, accepted 06.02.2015 The article analizes one of the key images in the Old Permic art encountered in the most famous cultural site of the Kama region, the Glyadenovsky Bone Bed. <...> The images are classifi ed with defi nition of their symbolic meaning. <...> Introduction In the Early Iron Age there were unique sacred places in the Kama region – bone beds. <...> The main part of the fi ndings contains bones of pets and wild animals. <...> Over 10 artifacts of the kind have been found at the territory of the Perm region. <...> Bony, bronze and iron arrow heads, beads and small round metal plates, images of birds, people, wolves and other animals made of bronze and copper are frequently found at the bone beds. <...> Analysis of the materials from the bone beds offers a picture of religious ideas of the Kama region population as a complex system containing various cults within it. © Siberian Federal University. <...> All rights reserved * Corresponding author E-mail address: kae.psu@gmail.com # 585 # The most famous ceremonial altar, where different kinds of rituals meeting the ideological views of the Kama region people took place, is the Glyadenovsky Bone Bed located near the southern border of Perm city on the left bank of the Nizhniaia Mulianka river. <...> One of its specifi c groups contains anthropomorphic and zoomorphic ceremonial fi gures with the total number exceeding 1 thousand images (Spitsyn, 1902, pp. 246-247; Novokreshchennykh, 1914, pp. 81-84; Lepikhin, 2007, pp. 97-98). <...> The Images of Reptiles on the Items Found at the Glyadenovsky Bone Bed will give a classifi cation of the images, their interpretation and determination of the symbolic meaning for the ancient peoples of the Kama region, as well as disposal of the discoveries that have not been presented earlier. <...> There are six species of reptiles in the Perm region subdivided into two subspecies: snakes and lizards (Zhivotnye Prikam’ia <...>