Re: That old Odin scenario ...

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, george knysh <gknysh@...> wrote:

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> --- tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
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> >
> > > GK: You could start here:
> > >
> > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polychrome_style
> >
> > I was redirected to a Wikipedia page titled 'Migration Period
> > art'. Is that the one you mean?
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> ****GK: Yes. And the subsequent one (I sent the
> corrected URL). Polychromism was not yet known to the
> Scythians. It was culturally endemic to Sarmats and
> Alans. It influenced Bosporan Greek jewellery.****

Nice.

So, what you're saying is that the burials of local nobility in the
1st century BCE would always include objects of that style?

> > It seems the ring pommel started as two mirrored animals.
> >
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> ****GK: Have a look at a pre-Xiongnu Ordos warrior
> here:
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> under "Sakas and Scythians"
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordos_culture
>
> ****

That means we can't dismiss whatever Arnaud might come up with of
putative Germanic-Chinese etc cognates, although of course his
scenario is wrong.


Torsten