Scythian, Sarmatian, Taurian, Alan, Black Sea, and northern-steppe witnesses from classical literature, history, geography, and inscriptions.
Folders
Chinese Frontier Sources — Chinese historical and frontier-administrative witnesses for Xiongnu, Wusun, Yuezhi, Kangju, Sai/Saka, Dawan, oasis states, and the eastern side of the Scythian source-world. (36)
Greek and Roman Sources — Greek and Roman literary, historical, geographical, and philosophical witnesses for Scythia and the northern Black Sea world. (91)
Greek Philosophical Sources — Greek philosophical and ethnographic testimonia for Anacharsis, the Saka, and the intellectual afterlife of the Scythian world. (3)
Inscriptions and Dedications — Greek inscriptional witnesses for Olbia, Hylaea, Achilles Pontarches, the Mother of the Gods, and North Black Sea sacred geography. (47)
Iranian and Imperial Sources — Iranian, Achaemenid, and Zoroastrian source texts for Saka, Scythian, and steppe-imperial history. (8)
Near Eastern Sources — Assyrian, Babylonian, and Near Eastern witnesses to Scythians, Cimmerians, Medes, and the northern frontier. (3)
Rare Inscription Dossiers — Rare Greek inscription dossiers for Scythian, Bosporan, Chersonesite, and north Black Sea source evidence. (1)
Pages
Glossary — A compact glossary for the Scythian shelf: peoples, places, source families, and recurring ritual or historical terms.
Introduction to Scythian Religion — A critical introduction to Scythian religion as Iranian steppe religion and imperial theology: sky, fire, sword, horse, burial, animal style, Saka, Avestan, Scytho-Mede kingship, and the Central Eurasian horizon.
Reader's Guide to Scythian Sources — A reader's guide to the Scythian shelf, with safe paths through Greek and Roman witnesses, inscriptions, and imperial source lanes.