Scythian gold statuette 4th C. BCE

"The Agathyrsi live more delicately than all other men, and are greatly given to wearing gold. Their intercourse with women is promiscuous, that so they may be brothers and kinsfolk to each other and thus neither envy nor hate their fellows. In the rest of their customs they are like to the Thracians."

-Herodotus, The Histories, Book 4.104

Scythian gold statuette 4th C. BCE. From Kul Oba Kurgan. 

Source:

https://www.meisterdrucke.uk/fine-art-prints/Scythian/319389/Plaque-depicting-two-Scythians-sharing-a-drink-(gold).html

https://www.meisterdrucke.uk/fine-art-prints/Scythian/930300/Plaque-depicting-two-Scythians-sharing-a-drink-(gold)-(detail-of-343170).html

http://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?linkpath=pages%5CS%5CC%5CScythians.htm

Quote:

https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Herodotus/4E*.html