Cook, Arthur Bernard, 1868-1952 · Cambridge [Eng.] The University Press · leaf 996
inged andarmed, carrying a Nike^, or holding a wreath and accompanied byher snake^, or grouped with a diminutive warrior^. Among the finds made in a Scythian grave-mound at Alex-andropol and now preserved in the Hermitage was the skeleton ofa horse still wearing its phdlara of gilded silver. The… … Fig. 633. F. H. Marshall referred these horse-trappings to the fourth centuryB.C., but E. H. Minns^ on stylistic grounds, assigns them withgreater probability to late Hellenistic times. ^ Brit. Mus. Cat. Gems^ p. 360 no. 3850 a fragmentary cameo in paste imitating sard. 2 Furtwangler Geschnitt.…
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