Cook, Arthur Bernard, 1868-1952 · Cambridge, [Eng.] : University Press · leaf 995
nged andarmed, carrying a Nike1, or holding a wreath and accompanied byher snake2, or grouped with a diminutive warrior3. 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. Marshall7 referred these horse-trappings to the fourth centuryB.C., but E. H. Minns8, on stylistic grounds, assigns them withgreater probability to late Hellenistic times. 1 Brit. Mus. Cat. Gems1 p. 360 no. 3850 a fragmentary cameo in paste imitating sard. 2 Furtwiingler Geschnitt.…
Zeus (Greek deity) · Cults · Sun worship · Classical antiquities · Folk literature
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