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    Posted: 01-Mar-2012 at 13:46
Yes, those are tributes but about the bracelet, that one seems to be Syrian, not Scythian, because those are Syrian tribute bearers.
 
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  Quote Don Quixote Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 29-Feb-2012 at 19:14
Great pictures, Cyrus, thank you.
Are the bracelets, amphoras, and bowls tribute articles? The birds on the bracelets remind me on the Scythian griffins
http://whc.unesco.org/uploads/news/documents/news-433-1.pdf
http://books.google.com/books?id=ciZquFt9IFIC&pg=PA136&lpg=PA136&dq=scythian+bracelets+with+griffons&source=bl&ots=pDSBBO8vnF&
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Scythians as depicted in Persepolis, with the same position of the bracelets:
Saka Tigrakhauda at Persepolis
And Herodotus talks about Daruis invading the European Scythians, in his 4th book http://classics.mit.edu/Herodotus/history.4.iv.html


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  Quote Cyrus Shahmiri Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 29-Feb-2012 at 16:51

Some pics from a staircase of Apadana palace:

A sword:

An Amphora:

A bracelet:

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