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 363
s a red fillet tied ina knot with its ends hanging right down.Both stelae are of the ivth century. We have no good wall painting fromhouses: the Hellenistic house^ at Olbia,which had an interesting design in thepebble-mosaic of its peristyle^ and thebaths at Panticapaeum only yielded archi-tectural… … Fig. 219. Painted Stele of Apphe. Kerch. CR.1882-8, p. 20; KW. 284, f. 6; losPE. II. 217.Height I m. 98 cm. §4] Stelae. Tofnb-chajnhers 307 But it was on tlu; walls and roofs of fjravc chambers that the greater partof ancient paintings—hence loosely calletl frescoes—in South Russia havesurvived.…
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