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 449
grififins and such like. Thesefigures are merely stumpy versions of the usual Neo-Attic types. The calathos, though mostly associated with deities, was evidentlycommonly worn by real women. These actual specimens are perhaps unique,but we see models of it on such figures as the dancing statuette… … Figs. 2^ Gold diadems. Olbia. CR. 1897, pp. 79, 80, ff. 191, 192. \. The calathos was certainly kept for high clays and holidays. For lessimportant occasions was reserved the crrXeyyi? or a/x7ru^. Both the ladiesin the Great Bliznitsa had such imitating the texture of the hair either withclose…
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