Korenevsky S.N.

Key words: Early Bronze Age, Maykop kurgan, burial rite, Inanna-Ishtar deity.
The article investigates the symbolic assemblages from Maykop kurgan, which is dated broadly to the 37th–34th/33d cc. BC. On the basis of analogies to the gold headbands from the main burial, the gold flowers and their symbols on the various items from the assemblage, and the Tree of Life on the cup, it appears possible to assume that the main burial in Maykop kurgan is that of a priestess of Inanna-Ishtar, a deity whose androgynous qualities were reflected in the specific features of the worship rite.