Michèle Daumas, L’or et le pouvoir. Armement scythe et mythes grecs

The book by Michèle Daumas (M.D.) focuses on nine mid-fourth-century BC sheet-gold decorations which were created to cover wooden-and-leather cases of six gorytoi (bow and arrow cases) and three sword scabbards. Eight among them were unearthed in several tumuli in the Northern Black Sea area, and on...

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Main Author: Ustinova, Julija B. (Author)
Format: Electronic Review
Language:English
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Published: Centre [2011]
In: Kernos
Year: 2011, Volume: 24, Pages: 345-349
Further subjects:B Book review
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Summary:The book by Michèle Daumas (M.D.) focuses on nine mid-fourth-century BC sheet-gold decorations which were created to cover wooden-and-leather cases of six gorytoi (bow and arrow cases) and three sword scabbards. Eight among them were unearthed in several tumuli in the Northern Black Sea area, and one was discovered in Macedonia. These nine objects are usually treated together, as a corpus of gold artifacts belonging to ceremonial sets of Scythian weapons and produced by Greek artisans. The bo...
Contains:Enthalten in: Kernos
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.4000/kernos/1978