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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 44

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iae shew these figures to be Scythians, probably Sacae from thePersian forces quartered in Egypt. No. i has the sloping eyes, No. 2 the high cheek-bones,No. 3 the round face of the Mongol, but their beards shew them no longer as Hippocratesdescribes them (v. p. 46) but intermixed with other blood… … Frc. o. Caricatures of Scythians from Memphis, Vth century B.C. \V. M. Flinders Petrie, Memphis, I.(1909), p. 17, PI. XL. 42, 44 (3 and 4) ; II. (1909), p. 17, PI. XXIX. 78, 79, 80 (i, 2, 5), cf Meydunt andMemphis., III. (1910), p. 46, PI. XI.Ii. 136—138. -My very best thanks are due to Professor…

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