Tibarenes
The Tibarener ( Greek Τιβαρηνοί, Latin Tibareni) were a Scythian tribe (according to ancient scholias ) on the south coast of the Pontos Euxeinos above Cape Genetaia. They lived from cattle breeding and are considered to be the inventors of metalworking , alongside the Chalybers and other peoples. Apollonios reports (Arg. 2,1011-1014) that the Tibarenes practiced the ritual of the couvade . According to Pliny, they painted or tattooed their bodies.
Together with the adjacent Moschern , macro formers , Mossynoikern and MarErn they formed the 19th satrapy in the Persian Empire . According to the epitaph of Darius, this would be Satrap Armenia. They took part in the Persian Wars, armed with wooden helmets, shields and spears, under the leadership of Ariomardos .
Sometimes the Tiberans are identified with the Tubal or the kingdom Tabal mentioned in the Bible .
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- Herodotus , 3.94 and 7.78
- Apollonios of Rhodes , Argonautika 2,377-378 and 1009-1014
- Scholium zu Apoll., Arg. 2,378
- Pliny the Elder , Naturalis Historia 6:11
Remarks
- ↑ cf. z. B. Apollonios v. Rhodes, Arg. 2,377: πολύρρηνες Τιβαρηνοί (polýrrhenes Tibarenoí: "the herd-rich Tibarenes")
- ↑ cf. Pliny, NH 6,11: "gentes Tibareni [...] notis signantens corpora" (roughly: "the Tibarenes, [...] who mark their bodies")
- ^ E. Dhorme, Les Peuples issus de Japhet d'après le chapitre X de la Genèse. Syria, 13/1 1932, 38