Scythians and Greeks : a survey of ancient history and archaeology on the north coast of the Euxine from the Danube to the Caucasus (1913)
Minns, Ellis H · Cambridge : University Press · leaf 356
e without figures. Besides the plain stelae or thosewith a simple horizontal moulding along the top, referred to any centurybetween vr b.c. and i a.d.,—these may have the further adornment of tworosettes or weapons,—we have in the ivth century n.c. a sim[)lification ofa cornice with eaves, and at… … of palmettes and volutes, recalling early Ionian pottery or even Cypro-Phoenician work^ More ordinary forms were at first probably painted : thefavourite variety is. a palmette rising from a pair of od volutes commonly notlying horizontally as in most Attic work, but set vertically back to back,…
Scythians · Art, Scythian · Art, Greek
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