Scythian Art

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Scythian Art ABOUT THE AUTHORS Boris Piotrovsky is a well-known expert in the tieid ol' ancient Eastern and Caucasian archaeology. He has carried out digs in the North Caucasus. Amienia, Central Asia and Egypt. The buik ol' his work has been devoted to the Kingdom of Urartu which existed from the 9th to the 6th century B.C. Piotrovsky has investigated the ancient fortress of Teishebaini (Karmir-blur) near Yerevan and contributed most valuable material on the culture of Urartu and its ties with the Scythian world. From 1953 to 1964 he headed the Leningrád Branch of the USSR Acadcmy of Sciences Institute of Archaeology and has been Director of the Hermitage since 1964. He is an acting mernber ofthe Academy of Sciences ofthe USSR and the Armenian SSR. and has been elected a mcmbcr and associate member of many foreign academies and institutes, including the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, the British Academy. the French Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-lettres, the San Fernando Academy... Tovább

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Scythian Art ABOUT THE AUTHORS Boris Piotrovsky is a well-known expert in the tieid ol' ancient Eastern and Caucasian archaeology. He has carried out digs in the North Caucasus. Amienia, Central Asia and Egypt. The buik ol' his work has been devoted to the Kingdom of Urartu which existed from the 9th to the 6th century B.C. Piotrovsky has investigated the ancient fortress of Teishebaini (Karmir-blur) near Yerevan and contributed most valuable material on the culture of Urartu and its ties with the Scythian world. From 1953 to 1964 he headed the Leningrád Branch of the USSR Acadcmy of Sciences Institute of Archaeology and has been Director of the Hermitage since 1964. He is an acting mernber ofthe Academy of Sciences ofthe USSR and the Armenian SSR. and has been elected a mcmbcr and associate member of many foreign academies and institutes, including the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, the British Academy. the French Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-lettres, the San Fernando Academy of Art in Spain and the Royal Moroccan Academy. His major works are The Histoiy and Culture of Urartu (1944). The Archaeology of Transcaucasia (1949), The Art of Urartu (1962), Karmir-blur (1970), and IVádi Allaki: The Way to the Gold Mines ofNubia (1983). ! Liudmila Galanina is a senior scholar at the Hermitage and curator of Scythian antiquities from the North Caucasus and the Middle Dnieper area. She is the author of a monograph The Kurjip Bitrial Mound, and of a series of monographs and articles on the Scythian world. Since 1980 she has headed the Hermitage Kelermes archaeological expedition, which in just four field seasons has exposed seven Bronzé Age burial mounds in the Kubán area, completed the exploration of an early-Scythian mound on ; which work had been begun in 1904, and opened a Maeotian grave of the 7th or 6th century B.C. Nonna Grach is head of the Black Sea Coast Section in the Hermitage Department of the History ofthe Ancient World. Since 1966 she has led the Hermitage archaeological expedition investigating Nymphaeum and its necropolis. Her research is devoted to the history ofthe Bosporan Kingdom and the development of its culture. She has written articles on the attribution of many works of ancient art, especially sculptures, terracottas and Graeco-Barbarian metalwork. Vissza