L'Or des Scythes. Trésors de l'Ermitage, Léningrad. Gréco-romain but also the personality of

but also the personality of Ramses II and his "dream of absolute power"

the Turks constructed a legend about the founding of the city and its symbolic center

and the social organization on earth

This volume aims to broaden our knowledge of religious beliefs based on the evidence and documents presented by the Turin Museum

terracottas and in particular the Iznik workshop which evolved towards polychromy

L'Or des Scythes. Trésors de l'Ermitage, Léningrad. Gréco-romain but also the personality ofDespite its title, this catalogue not only presents the gold objects of the Scythian culture, but also carved wood, bronzes, some terracotta, felt objects from the 5th 4th centuries BC that have been preserved thanks to frost, etc. It presents the history of the Scythian civilization as an introduction. Following this, the descriptive sheets for each object provide the pretext for a more in depth study of the different facets of this civilization.