Re: Summary of where it's at for the Sarmatian connection

--- On Wed, 8/12/09, tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

>
> In Siberia the tradition of the turquoise-golden animal style is
> rooted in the very deep past. From the 1st century AD such objects
> started to appear in the barrows of "The Golden Cemetery" and in
> other burials of the Kuban region, as well as along the lower
> reaches of the Don, where the most luxurious samples come from the
> barrows "Khokhlatch" and "Sadoviy" 33. This style is also known in
> Transcaucasia 34, it penetrated into the Dnieper valley 35, and
> further to the west.(Shchukin)
>
> GK: It looks as though we're talking about Aorsans ("West
> Alans") or Alans.

I wonder how much further to the west?
Would you check Shilov (note 35 below)?

****GK: Shilov speaks of a kurgan of the Lower Dnipro. Porogi is "further west".****

> Two rich burials - a male and a female one - were recently
> discovered near the village of Porogi in the middle Dniester
> valley, on the left bank of that river. The objects of the
> turquoise-golden style from these burials have parallels with the
> finds from "Khokhlatch" and Tillya-tepe; on some of them there is
> the tamga-sign of Inismei(?), the heir and successor of Farzoi.
>
> GK: Inismei ruled ca. 69/70-> ca. 85. Of Aorsan descent, though
> by that time they had fully fused with the Satarchi Scythians and
> were called either "Scythians" or "Tauroscythians" . The ruling
> elite: "Spali". Still bore that name when the Goths invaded in the
> 240's Cf. Jordanes.
>