Title on Photograph: EUROPE 500 BC - AD 300. EASTERN INFLUENCES.
Material: MAP
Comments on Photo: IMAGE FROM: ONIANS, JOHN (2004), ATLAS OF WORLD ART. LAURENCE KING PUBLISHING LTD. MAP 1, PAGE 58.
Comments on Subject: EASTER INFLUENCES INCLUDE THE IMPORT OF ACHAEMENID ARTEFACTS, INCONOGRAPHIES ADN SILK TO EUROPE FOLLOWING THE PERSIAN OCCUPATIOS OF THRACE (513 -480 AD), THE IMPACT OF SCYTHIAN NOMADS ON THE HUNGARIAN BASIN AND BEYOND, AND THE TRANSPORT OF THRACIAN AND SARMATIAN MOTIFS, SOME WITH NORTH INDIAN CONNECTIONS, WESTWARDS BY CAVALRY AUXILLARIES UNDER ROME. THE GUNDESTRUP CAULDRON, MADE WITH THRACIAN TECHNIQUES AND DEPICTING LA TENE CELTS, MAY HAVE BEEN CARRIED TO JULAND IN THE BOOTY OF THE GERMANIC CIMBRI AROUND 118 BC.
Group: ANCIENT WORLD ART
Bibliography: ATLAS OF WORLD ART
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