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Cimmerians - Origins | | Cimmerians - Origins: Encyclopedia II - Cimmerians - Origins | | Their origins are obscure, but they are believed to have been Indo-European. Their language is regarded as being related to either Thracian or Iranian. The Thracian theory is based on the fact that the Greek author Strabo ascribes the "Treri" in one passage to the Thracians (13.1.8) and in another to the Cimmerians (14.1.40). The Iranian theory, on the other hand, argues that the material culture of the Cimmerians in Asia Minor is indistinguishable from that of the contemporary Scythians; furthermore, Assyrian Gimirri and Persian S ...
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| | | Cimmerians: Encyclopedia II - Cimmerians - Origins
Cimmerians - Origins
Their origins are obscure, but they are believed to have been Indo-European. Their language is regarded as being related to either Thracian or Iranian. The Thracian theory is based on the fact that the Greek author Strabo ascribes the "Treri" in one passage to the Thracians (13.1.8) and in another to the Cimmerians (14.1.40). The Iranian theory, on the other hand, argues that the material culture of the Cimmerians in Asia Minor is indistinguishable from that of the contemporary Scythians; furthermore, Assyrian Gimirri and Persian Saka are used synonymously in ancient Near eastern sources, most notably on the famous Behistun inscription. Thus many scholars, including the Russian scholar Askold Ivančik, assume they were closely related to the Scythians. At any rate, even if the Cimmerians were Thracians, or belonged to some unknown Indo-European or non-Indo-European branch, they may well have had an Iranian ruling class, as did the Scythians. In the early twentieth century they were associated with the Proto-Indo-Europeans ("Aryans" or "Japhetites").
Very little is known archaeologically of the Cimmerians of the Northern Black Sea Coast. It has been suggested they may have comprised the so-called "Catacomb culture" of southern Russia, which appears to have been ousted by the "Srubna culture" that advanced from farther east. This parallels the Greek account of how the Cimmerians were displaced by the Scythians. However, the ouster of the Catacomb culture is carbon-dated to the 2nd millennium BC, several hundred years before the Scythians are recorded as having appeared in Asia; the conflicting timeframes are difficult to reconcile.
A few stone stelae found in the Ukraine and the northern Caucasus have been connected with the Cimmerians. They are in a style clearly different from both the later Scythian and the earlier Yamna/Kemi-Oba stelae.
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