Fw: Re: [tied] Re: Mid-first century BCE Yazigian prerequisites

> The quote of Shchukin of Romanized Sarmatians was meant more like a
> proof of concept. BTW didn't the Royal Sarmatians disappear at the
> same time as Zarubincy collapsed (Shchukin)?
>
> ****GK: Earlier I think. The last one to mention them was Appianus in his Mithridatic Wars (#69). It seems that they were the Roxolani. Strabo's "Royals" were not Sarmatian but Scythian. and their "Ourgoi" (=Georgoi) associates were the Zarubinians.****
>

Aha! Oho! Allied with people from Georgia/Vani!
I'm off to the library.


Torsten