- PII
- S0321-03910000392-7-1
- DOI
- 10.7868/S10000392-7-1
- Publication type
- Article
- Status
- Published
- Authors
- Volume/ Edition
- Volume / Issue 1
- Pages
- 193-196
- Abstract
- The author identifies the place-name Τράκανα mentioned by Ptolemy with the present day Dzhangul´ on the Tarkhankut peninsula in Northwestern Crimea. A 2nd century shrine is archaeologically attested in the area, where a goddess named Ταρκα or Ταργα was apparently worshipped. Her name seems to be the first component of the name of Ταργί-ταος, progenitor of the Scythians. It is not impossible that it was a general appellative, but the word does not look Iranian, and therefore it is more probable that the name of Targitaos is theophoric.
- Keywords
- Toponymy of the Nothern Black Sea area in antiquity, Northwestern Crimea archaeology and epigraphy, Scythian religion and mythology
- Date of publication
- 01.01.2013
- Year of publication
- 2013
- Number of purchasers
- 1
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- 573
RAS History & PhilologyВестник древней истории Vestnik drevney istorii
- ISSN (Print) 0321-0391
- ISSN (Online) 3034-5251
FROM THE ONOMASTICS OF THE NORTHERN BLACK SEA AREA. XXI. Τράκανα
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