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Most famous Scythian silver Amphora/Vase,                                from Chertomlyk Royal Kurgan in Ukraine.
The Amphora was found in 1863 in an impressive kurgan in the vicinity of Nikopol city in Ukraine.
The Vase stands about 2 ft. 4 in. (70cm) high and is in the form of an amphora with a base instead of a point below. In its neck there is a fine strainer and there are strainers in the three outlets.
Each outlet was furnished with a plug attached by a chain. This arrangement suggests that the vase was meant for some liquid with scum or dregs, most probably kumys: strainers are common in rich Scythic graves. Below the neck, which is left plain, the shoulders of the vase are decorated by two bands of reliefs. The upper one, slightly repousse and heightened with gilding, offers on each side a scene of two griffins attacking a stag. The band below this goes continuously round the vase and bears the well-known scene of breaking in a filly, or whatever it may be; the technique is curious. The figures have been separately cast solid, gilded, and soldered on to the ground. Lassos and reins were in silver wire now broken away but remaining in the grasp of some figures. It is not necessary to insist on the ethnographic importance of this scene, nor on its artistic perfection. Its exactness is shown by the care with which two different breeds of horses are distinguished. These cast figures are in equally high relief on all sides, but the repousse work is higher at the front and shades off so that behind forms are only indicated by engraving and gilding. Below the band of Scythians, the whole surface of the vase is covered with arabesques made up of palmettes, flowers, tendrils, and leaves of acanthus with storks and other birds on the branches.
There is a great probability that Scythian king Aethes (ca. 429 BC – 339 BC) was buried in the Chertomlyk barrow. The king is famous by the fact that at age of 90 years he fought against Philip II of Macedon, the father of Alexander the Great and was killed in the battle.