Sarmatian tamgas(gakks) on Germanic spearheads

--- On Sat, 8/8/09, tgpedersen <tgpedersen@... com> wrote:



BTW check out the spearblade A3 from Mus^ov in the File section
from
Jaraslav Pes^ka - Jaroslav Tejral
Das germanische Königsgrab von Mus^ov in Mähren [ie Moravia]...
.../cut for economy/...
The important thing here is: no one says 'tamga'.
What's your opinion?


****GK: While surfing through the internet I looked to see if there were any items from the best current specialist on "tamgas among Iranic speaking nomads", Prof. S. Yatsenko. I found the following extremely interesting site:  cf.
http://www.formuseum.info/2009/04/26/jacenko3.html

Yatsenko has identified ca. 22 Sarmatian (more precisely Aorsan and Alanic) tamgas (he prefers to call them gakks which is the Ossetian term) on Germanic spearheads (mostly of the period ca. 150-230 CE) principally of the Przeworsk culture area. What is interesting is that he has also managed to identify nearly all of these gakks with their original "owners", Aorsans and Alans living in the steppes (by reference to burial sites from Western Ukraine to Western Kazakhstan). He notes that the great majority of these gakks ceased to function after ca. 150 CE, which means that their continuance in the Germanic lands is to be explained by "family inheritance". The clans they represented (except for one or two) perished during an invasion by eastern Alans in the mid-2nd c. CE. He supposes these gakks represent the membership in Aorsan and Alanic aristocratic clans of Sarmatian ladies who married into Vandalic families in the first and early 2nd c. CE. Two
notable gakks belonged to Scythian royalty of Aorsan stock (King Pharzoios/Farzoi== ruled ca. 45-ca.70 CE) and were found in a burial in Silesia and in Valle (SE Norway!), So it looks that not only the Bastarnians but also the Vandals intermarried with the Sarmatians in the time of Tacitus.****