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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 367

An illustration from Scythians and Greeks : a survey of ancient history and archaeology on the north coast of the Euxine from the Danube to the Caucasus, 1913, leaf 367
orned with the rape of Core. Four brown horses draw a red chariotwith blue wheels : the driver above may be either Eros, who should havewings, or Hermes, who usually leads the horses. On the car stands Plutoin a short red chiton and flying chlamys holding the blue-draped figure ofPersephone whom he… … Fig. 221. CR. 1868, p. 116. Ceiling of Catacomb of Alcimus. Kerch. middle of the roof was a womans head surrounded by green leaves and red,white and blue flowers (f. 221), recalling the head in the Great Bliznitsa (p. 307).Another catacomb (Zaitsevs) with the rape of Core was opened in 1895.…

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