Sheet-gold decoration for a sword scabbard – Greek or Scythian – Late Classical or Hellenistic – The Metropolitan Museum of Art https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/253056
Said to be from Chaian, Eupatoria district, Crimea, Russian Empire (now Ukraine) (Shcheglov and Katz 1991) In the 1880s, found in the village of Chaian, Eupatoria district, Crimea, by a local peasant; 1880s-90s, said to have been acquired by Islam-Ali, the father of a certain Abdulla-Islam-Ali-Oglu, purchased from a local peasant; with Islam-Ali, Eupatoria district, Crimea; 1914, offered for sale to the Russian Archaeological Institute in Istanbul by an anonymous dealer; [before 1918, acquired by Schepsel Gokhman (Hochmann), probably purchased from an anonymous dealer]; [with Schepsel Gokhman (Hochmann), Odessa (later Berlin); [before 1927, acquired by Kurt W
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