English: Nikopol Amphora. Place: Russia (now Ukraine). Period: Early Iron Age. Date: Scythian Culture. 4th century BC. Place of finding: Chertomlyk Barrow. Archaeological site: Dnieper Area, near Nikopol. Material: silver

Identifier: cu31924091767503 (find matches)
Title: History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Maspero, G. (Gaston), 1846-1916 Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry), 1845-1933 McClure, M. L., d. 1918
Subjects: Civilization, Ancient History, Ancient
Publisher: London : Grolier Society
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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SCYTHIAITS LASSOING HOKSES. CHAPTER III THE MEDES AND THE SECOND CHALD/CAN EMPIRE The fall of Nineveh and the rise of the Chaldsean and Median empires—TheXXVI Egyptian dynasty : Cyaxares, Alyattes, and Nebuchadrezzar. rpHE East was ever a land of kaleido-scopic changes and startling dramaticincidents. An Oriental empire, evenwhen built up by strong hands andwatched over with constant vigilance,scarcely ever falls to pieces in the slowand gradual process of decay arisingfrom the ties that bind it together becom-ing relaxed or its constituent elementsgrowing antiquated. It perishes, as a rule,in a cataclysm; its ruin comes like a bolt 1 Drawn by Faucher-Grudin, from the silver vase of Tchertomlitsk, nowin the museum of the Hermitage. The vignette is also drawn by Faucher-Gudin, and represents an Egyptian torso in the Turin museum ; the cartouchewhich is seen upon the arm is that of Psammetichus I.

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