Scythia (India)

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Section from the Tabula Peutingeriana

The region at the mouth of the Indus is referred to as Scythia in various ancient Roman sources . This name can be found on the traditional, ancient maps, such as B. with Claudius Ptolemy , who calls the region Indo-Scythia and the Tabula Peutingeriana . The region is also mentioned in the Periplus Maris Erythraei , according to which the area is said to have been contested by Parthian princes. After the Periplus Maris Erythraei and after Claudius Ptolemäus Geographike Hyphegesis (Book VII, 1), Minnagara (Minnagar) was the capital. Scythia is also mentioned in ancient inscriptions such as those from Palmyra . In the first century BC in the Indus valley The Indo-Scythian dynasty , to which the name of the region in western sources is derived. An important port was Barbarikon (Periplus, chap. 38).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Tabula Peutingeriana: Section 11: Persia, Media, Bactria, Hyrcania, India, Taprobane, Sina
  2. ↑ Periplus Maris Erythraei, 27
  3. ↑ z. B. Monika Schuol : The Charakene. A Mesopotamian Kingdom in the Hellenistic-Parthian Period , Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-515-07709-X . Pp. 73-75, No. 21, 22