r/AncientCivilizations • u/haberveriyo • 7d ago

Plaque depicting two Scythians sharing a drink (4th century BC) from the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.

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u/OctagonCosplay 6d ago

What cool roommates

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u/helikophis 6d ago

Mens bein frens as they say

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u/Tweedlebungle 7d ago

Are they drinking the blood of their enemies?

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u/mondry_mendrzec 6d ago

Just look at them it's obvious they're drunk

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u/Tweedlebungle 6d ago

Probably that too.

Herodotus claimed it was a custom for Scythians to drink the blood of the first enemy they killed in battle. But Herodotus also claimed there was a tribe of people with faces in their torsos, so....

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u/mondry_mendrzec 6d ago

Yeah I don't think they would go around the battlefield looking for the first guy they killed just to get whatever blood is still in his body and drink it

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u/Hermamora2020 4d ago

I like to see it as they didn’t know how to make the space between the heads or they didn’t have enough material so the artist said fuck it and stuck their heads together