Salvete Omnes,
a short entry today:
the Louvre Museum graciously made available on their website a collection of photographs of one highly unusual silver rhyton.
Allegedly this artwork comes from the Pontic steppe - Crimea and/or Kherson area etc - and was acquired by the museum in 1960s.
The vessel, shaped like a head of a wild boar, is decorated with some highly unusual art showing the Pontic Scythians and their horse in full tack.
This work has never been seen by me and upon doing some research I came upon some scholars who question its alleged origin - the IV century BC. My friend and scholar dr Patryk Skupiniewicz, when asked, also was highly skeptical about this rhyton's origin.
But the figures are quite splendid and beautiful, so let us enjoy this art for what it is prima facie
the images are posted under the Louvre copyright as per their terms and conditions - 4.1.1 & 4.1.2.
Valete
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