Author: Jacobson, Esther.
Title: The art of the Scythians. The interpenetration of cultures at the edge of the Hellenic world.
Description: Leiden, New York & Köln, E.J. Brill, 1995. XVIII,305 pp. 145 b./w. figs on [81] plts. Orig. hardcover (blind stamped light green cloth with gilt lettering), d./j. 8vo. (Handbuch der Orientalistik, 8. Abteilung: Zentralasien / Central Asia, 2. Band). [ISBN: 9789004098565].This volume considers the art of the Scythians of the northern littoral of the Black Sea. It focuses on the transformation of object types and styles, from archaic zoomorphic representations in carved bone, wood and bronze to reflections of Hellenistic tastes and sensibilities in gold and silver. - - Text in English. Sold out at the publisher.

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