GREEK SCYTHIA 



Scy)th(dns a.nd Greeks. -^ survey of ancitnt bhtor\ and archaeology on the 

 north coast of the Eiixine from the Danube to the Caucasus. By Ellis H. 

 Minns., M.A., Fellow of Pembroke College., Cambridge., Member of the 

 Imperial Russian Archaeological Society. 



Royal 4to. Buckram, gilt top. pp. xl + 720. With 9 maps and plans, 

 9 coin plates, and 355 illustrations in the text. Price £2. 3J. net 



This book offers a summary of what is known as to the archaeology, 

 ethnology and history ot the region between the Carpathians and the 

 Caucasus. The region is of varied importance for different branches 

 of knowledge touching the ancient world, yet about it the scholars of 

 Western Europe have had a certain difficulty in obtaining recent information, 

 because each found it unprofitable 

 to master Russian for the sake of 

 pursuing his subject into an out- 

 lying corner. The language diffi- 

 culty, therefore, first suggested this 

 work, and the author's original 

 intention was merely to supply a 

 key to what has been written by 

 Russian scholars. But such a 

 fragmentary account of things 

 would have been most unsatis- 

 factory, and enough advance has 

 been made since the last attempt 

 to review the subject, to justify a 

 provisional summary. 



Though thegeographical limits 

 have confessedly been dictated by 

 considerations of language, yet 

 the frontier of Russia towards 

 the Carpathians and the Danube 

 answers nearly to a real historico- 

 geographical boundary, the western 

 limit of the true steppe. The 

 Caucasus, again, is a world in itself, having little in common with the steppe, 

 nor has the time yet come to bring any sort of system into its archaeology. 

 On the other hand, the unity of the Asiatic and European steppe has led 

 the author on occasion right across to Siberia, Turkestan and China. 



"The book," to quote the words of The Athenaeum, "is in itself 

 a library on Greek Scythia and we trust it will receive full recognition 

 both at home and abroad. The author's knowledge of Russian and his 

 intimacy with the sites he describes bring him constantly nearer to his 

 sources than most writers can hope to penetrate. For all these reasons 

 we commend his work both to the learned world and to educated men 

 of the world." 



Fig. 58. Chmyreva Mogila. Golden 

 harness adornment. \. 



