LaurieAnnie's photos with the keyword: scabbard

Knife Scabbard with Row of Birds Northeast China 7th-5th century BC Bronze Accession # 2002.201.11 Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.

Sheet-gold decoration for a sword scabbard Greek, 340-320 BC Said to have been found near Chaian in the Crimea on the northern shore of the Black Sea Accession # 30.11.12 In the main frieze is a battle between Greeks and barbarians; at the left end stand two griffins. The irregular field above the frieze shows deer being killed, one by a lion, the other by a griffiin. The scabbard from which this gold decoration came would have been of another material, possibly bronze or iron. Such an elaborately embellished scabbard would have formed part of a ceremonial set of Scythian weapons. Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.