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Golden Comb This golden comb, made about 400 B.C.E. in Scythia (now part of Ukraine), shows a battle between three warriors, perhaps the three brothers who are the legendary founders of Scythia. Their dress shows a combination of Greek and Eastern details; the mounted horseman is clothed with largely Greek armor, while the warriors on foot are wearing Eastern dress. The comb may have been made by a Greek craftsman who had migrated to the Black Sea area, as the Greeks established colonies there, but it was buried in a Scythian burial mound. (From Solokha burial mound, 4th century B.C./Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia/Photo © Boltin Picture Library/The Bridgeman Art Library)