Charles Hercules Read; a tribute on his retirement from the British museum and a record of the chief additions to the Department of British and mediaeval antiquities and ethnography during his keepership, 1896-1921 (1921)
London · leaf 144
XXXIII ScYTHic Bronze Plaques and Bactrian Axe (t) Pierced plaque, concave at the hack, reprcsentinj,^ a combatbetween a lioness and an eagle. The former grasps with her jawsthe legs of the bird, which has a firm grip with its beak on thelionesss neck. Greenish-grey patina. Siberian, about the…
Read, Charles Hercules, Sir, 1857-1929 · British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography · Art objects · Art, Medieval
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