Gorytos
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A gorytos is a type of leather bow-case for a short composite bow used by the Scythians in classical antiquity. They are a combination of bow case and quiver in one, and are worn on the archer's left
A gold-plated plaque intended to be attached to a gorytos, from tomb of Philip II of Macedon, Vergina, Greece.
Relief of Achaemenid warriors at Persepolis. The Median ones are carrying gorytoi.
Scythians
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The Scythians or Scyths, also known as the Pontic Scythians, were an ancient Eastern Iranic equestrian nomadic people who migrated during the 9th to 8th centuries BC from Central Asia to the Pontic St
Gorytos
…A gorytos (Ancient Greek: γωρυτός, pl. γωρυτοί, Latin: gorytus) is a type of leather bow-case for a short composite bow used by the Scythians in classical antiquity. They are a combination of bow case and quiver in one, and are worn on the archer's left hip with the opening tilted rearward…
The maximum extent of the Scythian kingdom in West Asia and surrounding areas
The maximum extent of the Scythian kingdom in the Pontic steppe
The 5th-century BC Greek historian Herodotus of Halicarnassus is the most important literary source on the origins of the Scythians
Curled-up feline animal from Aržan-1, circa 800 BC.