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 406
nting. A last survival of painting was a practiceof putting a wreath round a vessels neck or a kind of necklace in white paint,giving almost an effect of relief. This was often done in local work, which isbetrayed by the poor quality of its glaze. There is a large amphora of suchwork in the Museum… … Fio. 254. CR. 1901, p. 12, f. 17. Cantharos, Olbia. \. Such arefound in Scythic tombs (v. p. 82), e.g. Chertomlyk. within their reach great masses of gold and silver, some of which they appliedto the making of plate, and Toreutic became a far more important art than ithad been. The common people…
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