New Findings in Scythian Animal Style from Olbia Pontica
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2023
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Bujskikh, Alla
Ivchenko, Andrii
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This contribution presents some new artifacts produced in the Scythian animal style together with a casting mold that were found at Olbia Pontica. The items were used mainly as a decoration of a horse bridle and the details of armament in the late Archaic – early Classical time. The stylistic peculiarities demonstrate the usual images of Scythian origin and a specific combination of Ionian artistic tradition. A question of artisans and customers that used these items is discussed. The authors join the scholars who suggest their common use as armament decorations both by Olbian residents and barbarians and defend a point of view that some of them could be produced in the polis’ workshops by local, Ionian artists.
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Olbia Pontica, Scythian animal style, Greek-barbarian relations, Northern Black Sea region, article
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Bujskikh A. V. New Findings in Scythian Animal Style from Olbia Pontica / Alla Bujskikh, Andrii Ivchenko // Pontica. - 2023. - Nr. 56, Supplementum 10. - P. 103-115.