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Scythian and Thracian Antiquities Michael Vickers

Scythian and Thracian Antiquities By Michael Vickers

Scythian and Thracian Antiquities by Michael Vickers


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This work is based upon the contents of six Scythian tombs from Nymphaeum excavated in 1868 - gold jewellery, silver plate, pottery and armour, which tells us much about the Scythian way of life.

Scythian and Thracian Antiquities Summary

Scythian and Thracian Antiquities by Michael Vickers

The Scythians were nomads who roamed the Steppes of Russia during the first millennium BC before settling in the region to the north of the Black Sea, where they came into friendly contact with Greek traders. Their distinctive 'Animal Style' art is of a kind that is widespread in central Asia. The Thracians occupied the lands to the north of the Aegean now forming part of Greece, Turkey and especially Bulgaria. This book focuses on the contents of rich Greco-Scythian and Thracian burials in Ukraine and Bulgaria: six Scythian tombs from Nymphaeum excavated in 1868 (a Greek colony in the Crimea) - gold jewellery, silver plate, pottery, armour and weapons - together with the previously unpublished contents of a princely Thracian burial found at Dalboki, east of Stara Zagora in North Central Bulgaria, in 1879. In both cases, our knowledge of interaction between Greek and native cultures is greatly enriched.

About Michael Vickers

Michael Vickers is Professor of Archaeology in the University of Oxford, Senior Research Fellow in Classical Studies at Jesus College, Oxford, and curator of Greek and Roman Antiquities at the Ashmolean Museum. He is also the author of 'Ancient Greek Pottery'.

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GOR003374816
9781854441805
1854441809
Scythian and Thracian Antiquities by Michael Vickers
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Ashmolean Museum
2010-06-01
80
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