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- Title
HELLENISTIC PHALERAE FROM THE BURIALS OF THE NOMADS OF ASIAN SARMATIA.
- Authors
Treister, Mikhail
- Abstract
The article describes Hellenistic phalerae made of silver and found in the 2nd-1st centuries BC nomadic burials in the vast territory of Eurasia. It mentions the composition with a Bellerophon on Pegasus fighting Chimera, as on the pair from Volodarka, which was characterized by Art historian J. Boardman as an aggressively Hellenistic motif; and also mentions the motif of the elephant phalerae finds prototypes in the Hellenistic art.
- Subjects
MILITARY decorations; BELLEROPHON (Greek mythology); PEGASUS (Greek mythology); CHIMERA (Greek mythology); HELLENISTIC art
- Publication
Art of the Orient, 2018, Vol 7, p46
- ISSN
2299-811X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.15804/aoto201803