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 427
r heads,and hence they have been called idols, but there is no reason to suppose thatthey represent anything but some strange head-dress (f. 268). The modelwaggons were also toys (v. pp. 50, 51, ff 5, 6^). It has been said that we have no clear idea what was the object of puttingterra-cottas into… … at opposite ends of the grave: but in South Russia the object of a large classboth of terra-cottas and of plaster figures is quite clear. They served todecorate coffins, and mention has been made of the traces left by them on thepanels. The most usual series for this purpose was that of the…
Scythians · Art, Scythian · Art, Greek
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