MAIASP. 2022. No. S1 THE GODS OF SARMATIANS DOI: 10.53737/2713-2021.2022.89.30.006 Access this
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The anthropomorphization process and the probable identification of
nine Sarmatian gods and goddesses are considered. There are two times fewer
visualized female deities than male ones. Some of the characters were
visualized only in a single case, others had two or
even three versions of the iconography. Few of them are visualized without
the obvious influence of other cultures (Nos. 1, 9),
in most cases Greek-Roman iconography was used. For four characters
the contribution of |
Key words: gods of Sarmatians,
identification with Alano-Ossetian personages, variants and stages of
anthropomorphization of images, the use of images of foreign deities, 2nd
c. BCE — 4th c. CE. |
Received
November 30, 2022 Accepted
for publication December 12, 2022 |
About the author: Yatsenko
Sergey Aleksandrovich ( E-mail: sergey_yatsenko@mail.ru
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