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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 485

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old plates in eight varieties some of them identicalwith the Priestesss. So far the correspondence is almost complete ; but thedifferences are very curious. Some may be a matter of date, for of the twothe third lady would appear the later, a glass bottle, an Egyptian Bes and thePersian stone might… … To a kind of childishness we may put down a whole series of miniaturevessels in bronze and clay, a doll and tiny. cymbals. But only a mostperverted taste can have had pleasure in the extraordinary series of terra-cottas^Some are merely Bacchic, some mere genre figures, others caricatures,…

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