CONSTANTINE I the GREAT 307-337 AD Sarmatia DEVICTA Ancient Roman Coin R1

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ROMAN EMPIRE- CONSTANTINE I the GREAT 307-337 AD Sarmatia DEVICTA Ancient Roman Coin R1 Victory over SARMATIA weight-2,95gr diameter-20mm see my other items GOOD LUCK Worldwide and combined shipping is possible! VERY RARE AND SCARCE ROMAN COIN supplier of all our packages is a German registered mail with tracking number of the shipment The Iron Age Sarmatians (Latin Sarmatæ or Sauromatæ , Sanskrit Sakas Greek Σαρμάται, Σαυρομάται ) were an Iranian people in Classical Antiquity , flourishing from about the 5th century BC to the 4th century AD. Their territory was known as Sarmatia to Greco-Roman ethnographers , corresponding to the western part of greater Scythia (modern Southern Russia , Ukraine , and the eastern Balkans ). At their greatest reported extent, around 100 BC, these tribes ranged from the Vistula River to the mouth of the Danube and eastward to the Volga , bordering the shores of the Black and Caspian seas as well as the Caucasus to the south. The Sarmatians declined in the 4th century with the incursions connected to the Migration period ( Huns , Goths ). The descendants of the Sarmatians became known as the Alans during the Early Middle Ages, and ultimately gave rise to the modern Ossetic ethnic group. The Sarmatians emerged in the 7th century BC in a region of the steppe to the east of the Don River and south of the Ural Mountains in Eastern Europe. For centuries they lived in relatively peaceful co-existence with their western neighbors the Scythians . Then in the 3rd century BC they spilled over the Don to attack the Scythians on the Pontic steppe to the north of the Black Sea . The Sarmatians were to dominate these territories over the next five centuries. [6] In Hungary , a great Late Sarmatian pottery center was reportedly unearthed between 2001–2006 near Budapest , in Üllő5 archaeological site. Typical gray, granular Üllő5 ceramics forms a distinct group of Sarmatian pottery found everywhere in the northcentral part of the Great Hungarian Plain region, indicating a lively trading activity. A 1998 paper on the study of glass beads found in Sarmatian graves suggests wide cultural and trade links. [7] Archaeological evidence suggests that Scythian-Sarmatian cultures may have given rise to the myth of Amazons . Graves of armed females have been found in southern Ukraine and Russia. David Anthony notes, "About 20% of Scythian -Sarmatian "warrior graves" on the lower Don and lower Volga contained females dressed for battle as if they were men, a phenomenon that probably inspired the Greek tales about the Amazons ." [8] The numerous Iranian personal names in the Greek inscriptions from the Black Sea Coast indicate that the Sarmatians spoke a North-Eastern Iranian dialect ancestral to Ossetic (see Scytho-Sarmatian ). [9] Like the Scythians, Sarmatians were of a Caucasoid appearance, and before the arrival of the Huns (4th century AD) it is thought that few had Asiatic or turco -Mongol features. Sarmatian noblemen often reached 1.70-1.80m (5ft 7ins-5ft 10ins) as measured from skeletons , and they had sturdy bones, long hair and beards. The Alans who were a group of Sarmatian tribes according to the Roman historian Ammianus Marcellinus "Nearly all the Alani are men of great stature and beauty , their hair is somewhat yellow , their eyes are frighteningly fierce". [6] In the late 4th century, Ammianus Marcellinus [17] describes a severe defeat which Sarmatian raiders inflicted upon Roman forces in the province of Valeria in Pannonia in late AD 374. The Sarmatians almost destroyed two legions: one recruited from Moesia and one from Pannonia. The last had been sent to intercept a party of Sarmatians which had been in pursuit of a senior Roman officer named Aequitius. The two legions failed to coordinate, allowing the Sarmatians to catch them unprepared. The Sarmatians remained dominant until the Gothic ascendancy in the Black Sea area . Goths attacked Sarmatian tribes on the north of the Danube in Dacia , what is today Romania... read more

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