Attic and Rhodian Personal Evidence

This dossier gathers six small Greek inscriptions that preserve Scythian personal names or Scythian origin language in Attica and Rhodes. They range from an archaic dedication on the Athenian Akropolis to later name-stones and brief epitaphic notices.

The texts are small, but they add a useful human register to the Scythian shelf. Instead of royal geography or military ethnography, these stones preserve named persons, origin labels, craft, dedication, and civic presence.

The English below is translated from the inspected Ancient Greek inscription texts printed after the colophon. Short and formulaic inscriptions are kept short; uncertain relation language is kept cautious where the Greek gives only a name in the genitive.

Translation

1. Kriton the Scythian Dedicates to Athena

Kriton the Scythian dedicated me to Athena. Pollias made it.

Why it matters: this small witness preserves Kriton the Scythian in a Greek inscriptional setting. It is useful as evidence for Scythian names, origin labels, and personal presence across Greek civic and sacred spaces, not as an identity-flattening claim.

2. Simos in a Confiscation List

Simos, by origin a Scythian; Karion, by origin a Carian.

Why it matters: this small witness preserves Simos, Scythian by Origin in a Greek inscriptional setting. It is useful as evidence for Scythian names, origin labels, and personal presence across Greek civic and sacred spaces, not as an identity-flattening claim.

3. Skythios of Anaphlystos

Skythios of Anaphlystos.

Why it matters: this small witness preserves Skythios of Anaphlystos in a Greek inscriptional setting. It is useful as evidence for Scythian names, origin labels, and personal presence across Greek civic and sacred spaces, not as an identity-flattening claim.

4. Skythes Called Good

Skythes, a good man.

Why it matters: this small witness preserves Skythes, a Good Man in a Greek inscriptional setting. It is useful as evidence for Scythian names, origin labels, and personal presence across Greek civic and sacred spaces, not as an identity-flattening claim.

5. Aphrodisios Skythas on Rhodes

Aphrodisios, son or descendant of Skythas.

Why it matters: this small witness preserves Aphrodisios Skythas in a Greek inscriptional setting. It is useful as evidence for Scythian names, origin labels, and personal presence across Greek civic and sacred spaces, not as an identity-flattening claim.

6. Kalliope of Skythaina

Kalliope, daughter or descendant of Skythaina.

Why it matters: this small witness preserves Kalliope Skythaina in a Greek inscriptional setting. It is useful as evidence for Scythian names, origin labels, and personal presence across Greek civic and sacred spaces, not as an identity-flattening claim.

Colophon

This Good Works Translation was prepared for the New Tianmu Anglican Church from six Ancient Greek inscription records in PHI Greek Inscriptions: IG I3 658 / PH747, IG I3 427 / PH441, IG II2 5680 / PH8006, IG II2 12623/4 / PH15126, IG XII,1 526 / PH139072, and IG XII,1 527 / PH139073. The English is a new rendering from the inspected Greek source text printed below.

The dossier belongs with the Scythian inscription shelf as small personal evidence. It should not be used to turn every Greek person named Skythes, Skythas, Skythios, or Skythaina into an ethnic biography; some names may preserve origin, some may be personal or family names, and the context must stay visible.

Prepared for the New Tianmu Anglican Church, 2026.

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Source Text: Six Greek Inscriptions Preserving Scythian Names and Origin Labels

Ancient Greek source texts from PHI Greek Inscriptions. Presented here for reference, study, and verification alongside the English translation above.

1. IG I3 658 / PH747

Κρίτον <⋮> Ἀθεναίαι ⋮ ℎο Σκύθο ⋮ ἀνέθεκέ με.

Πολ[λίας] ἐποίε[σ]εν.

2. IG I3 427 / PH441

Σῖμος τὸ γένος Σκύθες, Καρίον [— —] τὸ γένος Κάρ.

3. IG II2 5680 / PH8006

Σκύθιος
Ἀναφλύστιος.

4. IG II2 12623/4 / PH15126

Σκύθης χρηστός.

5. IG XII,1 526 / PH139072

Ἀφροδίσιος
Σκύθας.

6. IG XII,1 527 / PH139073

Καλλιόπης
Σκυθαίνας.

Source Colophon

The source texts were inspected from PHI Greek Inscriptions on 2026-05-11 and captured locally under Tulku/Tools/scythian/sources/expansion_bench_2026-05-11/. The local HTML captures and matching extracted Greek text files use the ins31 suffix.

PH747 is described by PHI as IG I3 658 from the Athenian Akropolis, ca. 510-500 BCE. PH441 is described by PHI as IG I3 427 from Attica, 414 BCE. PH8006 is described by PHI as IG II2 5680 from Attica, second century BCE. PH15126 is described by PHI as IG II2 12623/4 from Attica. PH139072 and PH139073 are described by PHI as IG XII,1 526 and IG XII,1 527 from Rhodes.

The ancient source words are presented for verification. Modern database presentation and apparatus are not reproduced as the translated body.

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