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druzhina
06-02-2017, 07:39
I have expanded my collection of Skythian illustrations of costume and soldiers:
Scythian Warriors giving tribute on a Relief at Persepolis, after 526BC (http://warfare.tk/Ancient/Scythian-Relief-Persepolis.htm)
Skythian Warriors on Greek Ceramics, c.500BC (http://warfare.tk/Ancient/Skythians-Greek_ceramics.htm)
Achaemenid Persians and Scythians in paintings from the Tatarli Tumulus. Lydian tomb chamber built around 470 B.C. in southern Phrygia (http://warfare.tk/Ancient/Tatarli_Tumulus_Frieze.htm)
Wall-hanging: the Great Goddess being approached by a rider. Felt appliqué. Pazyryk, Siberia, fifth century BC, State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg (http://warfare.tk/Ancient/Central_Asia-30.htm)
Detail of the rider who approaches the Great Goddess, carpet, Pazyryk, Valley of the River Bolshoy Ulagan, Siberia, Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg (http://warfare.tk/Ancient/Pazyryk-horseman.htm)
Pazyryk Culture Wood and Leather Shields, 5th century BC, Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg (http://warfare.tk/Ancient/Pazyryk-Shield.htm)
A Scythian Gold Comb with Battle Scene from the Solokha Kurhan, Dneiper, Zaporozhye Region, late 5th-early 4th century BC, Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg (http://warfare.tk/Ancient/Skythian-Comb-Battle-Solokha.htm)
Silver-gilt Vase with Reliefs Depicting Griffins Devouring a Stag, Birds, Palmettes and Skythians Training Horses. Chertomlykskij Kurgan, Early 4th Century BC (http://warfare.tk/Ancient/Skythian-Chertomlytskaya_Vase.htm)
Scythian gold archers appliqué, Kul Oba burial, Crimea, 4th century BC (http://warfare.tk/Ancient/Skythian-Applique-Archers-Kul_Oba.htm)
A Scythian Gilded Bowl with Lion-Hunt from the Solokha Kurhan, 4th century BC, Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg (http://warfare.tk/Ancient/Skythian-Bowl-Hunt-Solokha.htm)
Scythian warriors on a gold cannabis pipe, Sengileevskoe, Caucasus, 4th century BC (http://warfare.tk/Ancient/Skythian-Cannabis_pipe-Sengileevskoe.htm)
A Graeco-Scythian gold horseman appliqué, c. 4th Century BC, Bonhams (http://warfare.tk/Ancient/Skythian-horseman_applique-Bonhams-11597-245.htm)
A Graeco-Scythian gold horseman appliqué, Crimea, 4th Century BC, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg (http://warfare.tk/Ancient/Skythian-horseman_applique-Hermitage.htm)
A Graeco-Scythian gold horseman appliqué (http://warfare.tk/Ancient/Skythian-horseman_applique-Petukhov.htm)
Plaque with Scythian Warriors, Geremes Barrow, Zaporozhye Region, 4th century BC, Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg (http://warfare.tk/Ancient/Skythian-Plaque-Warriors-Geremes_Barrow.htm)
Skythian Silver Gilt Vessel from the Gaimanova Graves, near Zaporozhe, middle 4th century BC (http://warfare.tk/Ancient/Skythian-vessel-Gaimanovo_graves-Zaporozhye.htm)
Gold Torc Terminating in Scythian Horsemen, Kul Oba Barrow, Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg (http://warfare.tk/Ancient/Skythian-Torc-Cavalry-Kul_Oba.htm)
Scythian urn with warriors, Kul Oba kurhan, Crimea, 4th century BC, Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg (http://warfare.tk/Ancient/Skythian-Urn-Kul_Oba.htm)
Scythian Gold Plaque bearing a scene of Sworn Brotherhood, Kul Oba kurhan, Crimea, Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg (http://warfare.tk/Ancient/Skythian-Plaque-Kul_Oba-Brotherhood.htm)
Scenes of Warriors on a Scythian Gold Ceremonial Helmet (http://warfare.tk/Ancient/Skythian-Gold-Ceremonial-helm.htm)
Scythian warriors on an urn, Haimanova Mohyla, Don Region, 4th century BC, Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg (http://warfare.tk/Ancient/Skythian-Warriors-Haimanova_Mohyla.htm)
Skythian Gold Pectoral from Tovsta Mohyla Kurhan, 4th Century BC, Museum of Historical Treasures of Ukraine, Kiev (http://warfare.tk/Ancient/Skythian-Pectoral-Tovsta_Mohyla.htm)
Scythian Rhyton with a Ritual Scene, Merdzhana, Transkuban, Late 4th - early 3rd centuries BC. Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, 2521-10 (http://warfare.tk/Ancient/Skythian-Rhyton-Ritual_Scene.htm)
A Scythian horseman on a carpet, Pazyryk, 252-238 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg (http://warfare.tk/Ancient/Skythian-horseman_pile_carpet-Hermitage.htm)
Scythian Warrior with Axe, Bow, and Spear on a Relief, 4th-2nd century BC, The Walters Art Museum (http://warfare.tk/Ancient/Skythian-Relief-Warrior-Walters.htm)

Mirror site:
Scythian Illustrations of Costume and Soldiers (http://warfare.ga/Ancient/Skythian.htm)

Druzhina
Scythian, Saka and Sarmatian Illustrations of Costume and Soldiers
and Pazyryk Culture, Yuezhi, Parthians, White Huns, Hephthalites and Alchon Huns (http://warfare.tk/Ancient/Skythian.htm)

druzhina
06-25-2017, 05:50
Some more ancient illustrations of Skythians:
A Scythian Plaque with a hare hunt from Kul’ Oba, northern Black Sea region, first half of the 4th century BC, Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg (http://warfare.tk/Ancient/Skythian-Plaque-Kul_Oba-Hare_Hunt-Hermitage.htm)
Scythian gold plaques with two drinkers, State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg (http://warfare.tk/Ancient/Skythian-Plaques-Drinkers-Hermitage.htm)
Possibly Skythians on a Torque (Pectoral) with a Pendant Depicting a Battle, Achaemenid, c. 4th century BC. Miho Museum, Shigaraki, Japan (http://warfare.tk/Ancient/Achaemenid-Pectoral-Battle-Miho.htm)
Scythian coin of King Atai, as a horse-archer (http://warfare.tk/Ancient/Skythian-Coin-Atails.htm)

Scythian Horse Archer in Armies and Enemies of Ancient Egypt and Assyria, 3200BC to 612BC by Alan Buttery (http://warfare.tk/WRG/AEofEA-104-Scythian_Horse_Archer.htm)
Scythian Horse Archer in Armies of the Macedonian and Punic Wars by Duncan Head, illustrated by Ian Heath (http://warfare.tk/WRG/AotMaPW-76-Scythian_Horse_Archer.htm)
Scythian Noble in Armies of the Macedonian and Punic Wars by Duncan Head, illustrated by Ian Heath (http://warfare.tk/WRG/AotMaPW-77-Scythian_Noble.htm)
Scythian Infantry in Armies of the Macedonian and Punic Wars by Duncan Head, illustrated by Ian Heath (http://warfare.tk/WRG/AotMaPW-78-79-Scythian_Infantry.htm)

Druzhina
Ancient Illustrations of Costume & Soldiers (http://warfare.tk/Ancient/Ancient.htm)