Bulletin, Issue 56"Bibliography of publications based upon collections made with the support of the Swedish China research committee, by Fr. E. Åhlander": Bulletin no. 1, p. 185-191. |
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8 ) The archaic triad dominated Scythian art of the sixth century , offering the most impressive indications of a still poorly understood symbolic system . ” By the fifth century , however , the purity of their individual images had ...
8 ) The archaic triad dominated Scythian art of the sixth century , offering the most impressive indications of a still poorly understood symbolic system . ” By the fifth century , however , the purity of their individual images had ...
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Rather than being a map of the Scythians ' significant space , as Raevskii has argued , the pectoral — like the vase — represents the submergence of an archaic symbolic system by an overwhelming interest in human events .
Rather than being a map of the Scythians ' significant space , as Raevskii has argued , the pectoral — like the vase — represents the submergence of an archaic symbolic system by an overwhelming interest in human events .
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... winged felines juxtaposed with leaping goats reaffirm the theme of symbolic predation - here within a landscape setting - directed by reference to an imaginary center . Figures of birds on trees , great gold wings , and the gold ...
... winged felines juxtaposed with leaping goats reaffirm the theme of symbolic predation - here within a landscape setting - directed by reference to an imaginary center . Figures of birds on trees , great gold wings , and the gold ...
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