From: tgpedersen
Message: 64346
Date: 2009-07-07
>In other words: No, there isn't. Thank you.
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@> wrote:
>
> > >
> > > Of course, but was there a specific dating relative to
> > > Burebista's reign and campaigns?
> > >
> > > GK: The destruction of Olbia was dated ca. 50 BCE.
> >
> > Sigh. I'll try again: Was there a line of reasoning using the
> > archaeological finds of the Yazig assault on Zarubinis which
> > permitted a dating of those attacks relative to events inside the
> > Burebista reign?
>
> ****GK: Double sigh. How many times does one have to repeat
> something before it sinks in? The assaults of the Yazigi against
> the southern forts of the Zarubinian complex (Bastarnians acc. to
> Shchukin, Venedic associates of the Bastarnians acc. to me) have
> been archaeologically dated to the period <40-20 BCE>. This is
> completely independent of any "events inside the Burebista reign".
> The dating automatically precluded any such "reasoning" since
> Burebista was assassinated years before the first possible date of
> the assaults. The only archaeologically dated event whioch can be
> related to Burebista is the destruction of Olbia (archaeologically
> dated as ca. 50 BCE) which is attributed to the Getae according to
> the Borystheniann speech of Dio Chrysostomus...****