Barry Cunlife - The Scythians

Macedonia 256
alliances with the Scythians
55–7
timeline 354
Madyes, Scythian king 34, 358
Makhoshevskaya burial, bronze
rattles (pole stops), Kuban
region 264, 274
Mannaeans 32, 33
Mappa Mundi depicting ritual
cannibalism, Hereford
Cathedral 308
Marathon, Battle of (490) 43, 175
Marcomanni tribe 322
Marcomannic Wars (ad 166–172)
322
Marcus Aurelius 322
Mardonius, Persian commander
259
Massagetae 40, 41, 51, 51, 111, 123,
169, 255, 317
ritual cannibalism 308, 309
Matvei Petrovich Gagarin, Prince
5–6
Medes 31, 32, 33, 34, 39, 113
Melanchlaeni (Black Robes) people
46–7, 49
Melgunov, Alexei Petrovich 9, 10
Melgunov kurgan, Kuban region
115, 116
Melitopol kurgan, Ukraine 21
Merdzhany, gold rhyton (drinking
horn), Krasnodar region
278–9, 279
Messerschmidt, Daniel Gottlieb
6–8
Mezöcsát culture, Great Hungarian
Plain 107–9, 149–50
Miletos 37–8, 44, 124
Minnagara (Karachi) 315
Minns, Ellis 15
Minusinsk Basin, Siberia 22–3, 196
1200–850 77–8, 79
climate changes 86–8, 87, 88
index
Mistress of the Beasts (Potnia theron)
276, 277, 282
Mithridates, king 319
Mongols 64–5
Moruzhenko, A. O. 342
Mozolevski, B. N. 348
Müller, Gerhard Friedrich 8
Nadlimanskoe settlement, Ukraine
129, 131
Neuri peoples 49
Nineveh, sack of 114
North European Plain, and
Scythian settlement 157
Novocherkassk culture 103
Novofedorivka kurgan 2, helmet
249
Novorozanovka burial 248
Nowosiólka burial with camel 141
Octamasades, Scythian king 217,
341, 357, 358
Olbia, Greek colony, Ukraine 1, 38,
45, 48, 52, 55, 119, 121, 124, 129,
131, 169, 256
Olbiopolite people 49
Onager (Equus hernionas) 70
Oricus, Scythian king 357, 358
origin myth, Scythian 266–7
Ossetians 327
Ostrogoths 325
Ovid 57, 57–8, 202, 241
ox-drawn covered wagons,
Scythian 67
Oxus treasure, Takht-I Kuvad,
Tajikistan 176
gold plaque 244
Paerisades, Bosporan king 258,
260
Palaeoclimatic chart (100–100 bc)
88
Pallas, Peter 10–11
Pannonia, Roman province 322–3
Panticapaeum, Greek colony,
Crimea 38, 119, 124, 125, 128,
331
Papaeus (Zeus) 267, 268
Parisades, Bosporan king 126
Parthian shot 241
Pazyryk cemeteries, Altai
Mountains, Kazakhstan
18–20, 18, 19, 187–90, 187, 241
dress and display 204–5
leather cut-outs from saddle
covers 287–9, 288
pendants 162–5, 163
sacrificial horse burials 231, 232,
301
Pazyryk kurgan 1
bridle 236, 237, 238
horse headdress 273–4, 273
saddle cover 228, 235
small shield 247, 248
Pazyryk kurgan 2 175, 190, 195, 209,
210, 238, 245, 261
bronze brazier 46
clothing 204, 205, 205, 206,
207
drum 274, 274
leather bag 215
preparation of bodies 296
stringed musical instrument
226, 226, 227
table and household equipment
213, 213,
warrior tattoos 207, 208, 265
Pazyryk kurgan 3 205, 238
caftan 204
small shields 247–8, 247
Pazyryk kurgan 4, log coffin 301
Pazyryk kurgan 5 187, 188, 189, 190,
194–5
carpet 174, 175, 225, 232
carriage with spoked wheels 195,
214–16, 215
female corpse 304
saddle 234
396