[gothic-l] Re: Christianisation of Crimean Goths

[Tore Gannholm]

Dirk,
I found the following about the Goths in the Crimea:

AA Vasiliev, The Goths in the Crimea. Mediaeval academy of America,
Publication N:o 25, Cambridge Mass. 1936

page 3. By the middle of the third century A.D. the Goths had migrated from
the shores of the Baltic Sea and settled in the territory known today as
Southern Russia, particularly along the northern and western shores of the
Black Sea. As a natural result, they penetrated into the Tauric peninsula,
where at that time the Bosporan Kingdom was predominant. The Goths
established their suzerainty over the greater part of that kingdom and took
possession of its fleet, an important economic achievement. With the fleet
they carried out several bold and far-reaching sea raids. These raids. as
well as those of their compatriots from the mouths of the Dniepr and the
Dniester, not only terrorized the eastern, western, and southern shores of
the Black Sea, but were even felt on the coast of the Propontis (the Sea of
Marmora), and in the islands and on the coasts of the Aegean and
Mediterranean.
The original source for information concerning Gothic raids and invasions
before Constantine the Great, and the foundation of all subsequent sources,
is the works of a contemporary Athenian, Herennius Dexippus, whom Photius
calls a second Thucydides; most unfortunately this source has not come down
to us. In the twelve books of his Chronicle Dexippus gave a brief
chronological account of events down to the reign of Emperor Claudius
Gothicus (268-270). His Scythian History described the struggle of the
Romans with the peoples north of the lower Danube and along the northern
shore of the Euxine, especially the Goths; as far as we can judge from the
fragments which have reached us, this covered the years from 238 to 271.
Dexippus was largely used by the so-called Scriptores historiae Augustae,
whose compilation is now attributed by most scholars to the fourth century,
as well as by Zosimus, an historian of the fifth century, and by George
Syncellus, a chronicler of the ninth century.
Tore

>Dear Andreas,
>
>thanks for all the links. Unfortunately, so far I could not get them
>to work but will try to find the literature.
>
>Aleksandr Aibabin (Simfereopol) wrote in 'Sto Let Chernyakhovskogo
>Cultura' (I only have a bad copy in Russian with an incomplete
>reference):
>
>Aibabin said that the Germanic settlement of the Crimean at the end of
>the first half of the 3rd century significantly changed the
>ethno-political make-up of the Crimean peninsula. ..... Germanic
>tribesmen pushed into the Crimean after Roman garrisons started to
>withdraw in the 240s AD to bolster the Danubian frontier, thus
>benefitting from the Roman withdrawal
>
>.... In the middle of the 3rd century the new cemetaries of Chatirdg,
>Ai-todor, Partenit and Chernaya reka start, which are closely
>associated with the Germanic settlement on the Crimean peninsula. ....
>
>
>Also, an author Igor Pioro "O Chernyakhovskoi kulturi na krimu" wrote
>in 2000 that
>
>"... Germanic urn and incremation burrials on Crimean start in the
>middle of the 3rd century AD. These can be found in the graveyards of
>Sovkhos Sevastopolskii, Chernaya reka, Belbek I, in the oblast' of
>Chersones and Ai-Todor, as well as Chatirdag and several others.
>....In these Chernyakov-type cemetaries all characteristics of the
>general incremation practice is presnent which reflects traditions of
>the Wielbark as well as the Przeworsk cultures.....
>
>The distribution of the mid-3rd century Chernyakov-type cemetaries on
>the Crimean together with documentary evidence and the fact that the
>Germanic language was attested into the 15th (sic!) century, supports
>the thesis that the Chernyakovsk-type graves should be attibuted to
>Germanic settlers. .....
>
>
>(all my translations)
>
>
>cheers,
>
>Dirk
>
>
>
>--- In gothic-l at y..., andreas.schwarcz at u... wrote:
>> Dear Dirk;
>> Here is my reference:
>>
>> {HYPERLINK
>"http://aleph.univie.ac.at:4505/ALEPH/RANDOM5042965/SCAN-ACC-X/0608774
>4"}Gomolka-Fuchs, Gudrun [Hrsg.] {HYPERLINK
>"http://aleph.univie.ac.at:4505/ALEPH/RANDOM5042965/SCAN-ACC-X/0090610
>7"}1.Körperschaft
>> {HYPERLINK
>"http://aleph.univie.ac.at:4505/ALEPH/RANDOM5042965/FIND-ACC/00906107"
>}Deutsches Archäologisches Institut <Berlin> / Römisch-Germanische
>> Kommission {HYPERLINK
>"http://aleph.univie.ac.at:4505/ALEPH/RANDOM5042965/SCAN-ACC-X/0608774
>5"}Die Sîntana de Mures-Cernjachov-Kultur. Akten des
>> internationalen Kolloquiums in Caputh vom 20. bis 24. Oktober 1995.
>> Römisch-Germanische Kommission, Eurasien-Abteilung. Hrsg. von
>> Gudrun Gomolka-Fuchs.  Bonn {HYPERLINK
>"http://aleph.univie.ac.at:4505/ALEPH/RANDOM5042965/SCAN-ACC-X/0013321
>7"}Verlag {HYPERLINK
>"http://aleph.univie.ac.at:4505/ALEPH/RANDOM5042965/FIND-ACC/00133217"
>}Habelt Jahr 1999,
>>
>> especially the article of Karl von der Lohe on the Crimea. Alexandr
>> Aibabin and a lot of other archeologists from Russia, Moldavia and
>> Ucraina were also there and agreed with von der Lohe on the subject.
>I
>> was there, too, and discussed the theme with them.
>> If Aibabin published anything disagreeing with the results of this
>> conference, I should like to have the reference.
>> Kind regards,
>>         Andreas
>>
>> ao.Univ.Prof.Dr.Andreas Schwarcz
>> Institut fuer oesterreichische Geschichtsforschung
>> Universitaet Wien
>> Dr.Karl-Lueger-Ring 1
>> A 1010 Wien
>> Oesterreich
>> tel.0043/1/42-77/272-16
>> fax 0043/1/42-77/92-72
>> email andreas.schwarcz at u...
>
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