Ukraine: Sarmatian gold perfume flask studded with garnets, 2nd-3rd century CE.
Sarmatian gold perfume flask studded with garnets, 2nd-3rd century CE. Hermitage. Image released to the press in 2009.
The Scythians were an ancient Iranian people of horse-riding nomadic pastoralists who throughout Classical Antiquity dominated the Pontic-Caspian steppe, known at the time as Scythia. By Late Antiquity the closely-related Sarmatians came to dominate the Scythians in the west.
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