Аннотация:The available publications accumulating archaeological sources from the VII century to the IV BC present an almost complete list of images of hares in Scythian and Sarmatian fine art. The proposed classification identifies the hare with the object of hunting and military glory and does not explain why these images accompanied the buried. At the same time, the duality implying a fertility symbol and a chronic one at the same time is questionable due to the absence of an integral seme in this semantic field. The purpose of this work is to test the proposed interpretation of the semantics of the image of the hare as luck on an expanded array of images, including items from museum collections of both Scythian and Sarmatian times. The application of the historical-diachronic method to the systematization of images allowed the author to formulate a preliminary hypothesis about the magical function of this symbol and the evolution of its use on objects coming from wide Eurasian territory.
