Scythian-style Scabbard Decoration (Illustration)

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by Metropolitan Museum of Art
published on 03 October 2019

Scythian-style Scabbard Decoration — Sheet-gold decoration for a sword scabbard, c. 340–320 BCE, said to be from near Chaian in the Crimea.
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