Re: [tied] Re: Toponymy and ethnic Realities [...]

--- m_iacomi <m_iacomi@...> wrote:

> Had those Scythian cities many things in common
> with Roman
> settlements?!

*****GK: Yes indeed, if by "Roman" settlements one
means what Constantine Porphyrogenitus meant. Remember
that to him "Romeans" were "Romans"! The architecture
of Old Scythian cities is very close to that of Olbia
,Tyras, and Chersonesos (though not as massive)******

>
> > Note that Moravcsik-Jenkins give no reasons
> whatever for
> > their choice of Dnister over Dnipro.********
>
> But I bet they had some reasons, though.

*****GK: The only one I can think of is a reason
common to textologists who simply prefer to follow a
particular manuscript in all of its details. That is
not good enough for historians. But since J/M kept mum
about their reasons I won't discuss this point any
more. Not enough data.******

> >> If the city was white-coloured since the
> beginning, it
> >> could have been both -- and I don't find any
> valid reason to
> >> dismiss this idea.
> >
> > ******GK: I assume that its sister fortress (the
> > "black" city) would have been built with the same
> type
> > of material originally, not with black
> stones...*****
>
> That's possible. So, what does that imply?

*****%%%%%:GK (:=))) My goodness... Why that if both
were built with the same kind of stone, the "white"
and "black" would have no relationship to colour as
such since colour-wise the "black' fortress would have
been as "white" as the "white" fortress...*****

>

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