Note 124 — Chapter I · HOMER—THE POSITION OF FISHERMEN

Equally famous, perhaps even more so, is the representation of a fish found in 1882 near Vettersfelde in Lower Lausitz, but now in Berlin. It is the shield-sign of a Scythian chief, made in gold repoussé work early in the fifth century b.c. See the publications of A. Furtwängler, Der Goldfund von Vettersfelde (Berlin, 1883), (= id. Kleine Schriften (München, 1912), I. 469 ff. pl. 18); cf. E. H. Minns, Scythians and Greeks (Cambridge, 1913), p. 236 ff. fig. 146. Furtwängler thinks that the fish may have been meant for the Thymus alalonga.