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Scythian gold plaques with two drinkers, State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg
A larger image of Scythian gold plaques with two drinkers, State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg
Gold plaques showing Scythians drinking. © The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, 2017. Photo: V Terebenin.
Source: Introducing the Scythians – The British Museum Blog
Plaque from the second tomb at Solokha, the burial of a man. It was found near the legs of the skeleton and is thought to have been sown on the trousers. The scene of two Scythians drinking from the same horn in a ritual described by Herodotus is also shown on a plaque made some fifty years later (no. 76).
Skythian, beginning of the 4th century B.C. Ukrainian SSR, Melitopol region, Solokha kurgan. Excavations of N. I. Veselovsky, 1913. Hermitage, DN 1913, 14.
Artamonov, Splendor, fig. 78.
Source: p.110, Cat. no. 72, "From the Lands of Scythians: Ancient Treasures from the Museums of the U.S.S.R., 3000 B.C.–100 B.C.": The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 32, no. 5 (1973–1974) Piotrovsky, Boris (1973–1974)
