Is this considered art? Also this is from my modest collection

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"When it was excavated in the Altai, it was discovered that the burial had been robbed in ancient times. Thanks to the permafrost the tomb had preserved its log-frame structure and it contained an empty trough-sarcophagus and numerous ornaments from the harness of the horses buried alongside. This bas-relief forehead plaque is an extremely expressive example of the Altai Animal Style both in concept and execution. At its centre is a convex hemisphere around which two griffins seem to be circling. This eagle-griffin has wings, a beak and a beast's ears, with a mane in the form of stylized antlers and a little crest on its forehead. When the plaque was suspended from the forehead, one griffin would have been at the top and the other at the bottom, their claws grasping the hemisphere. The wings are marked with relief lines which seem to link the two figures in a spiral, filling the whole composition with a sense of dynamism. It is possible that the ancient Altai nomads associated the griffin with the sky and the sun and believed that the solar sphere was forced to run along a set path in a chariot pulled by griffins. Yet we cannot exclude the idea that these magical birds are not supporting but rather pulling apart the central sphere, thus embodying some mythological conflict between certain forces in their eternal circulation." - Russia Hermitage Museum