OANNES - Uluslararası Eskiçağ Tarihi Araştırmaları Dergisi
Yazarlar: Said Mübin ÇALIŞ
Konular:Arkeoloji, Tarih
Anahtar Kelimeler:Cimmerians,Scythians,Arrowhead coins,Greek colonies
Özet: With the Lydian King Kroisos era, the size and chemical properties of the coins were standardized and a shopping tool that undertook the numismatically money was generated. The standard size and chemical features of the Lydian coins were soon learned and used by other societies. In the pre-Lydian period, various societies succeeded in creating their own money, but the standard could not be achieved in terms of size and chemical properties. Cimmerians and Scythians, who are among the steppe people living in the north of the Black Sea; according to archaeological finds, starting from the VIII BC. century, they set the arrowheads as their own coins. The steppe societies, which have a very important worth in the cultural features of warfare and combat devices, reflected the items related to warfare in their coins. Scythians; they went to classify coins in the form of arrowheads, by describing the essential products on the arrows, they created a different arrowhead for each product to be trading. The Greeks, which settled around the Black Sea in the VI BC century, created a synthesis culture by interacting culturally with the steppe societies living here. Greek colonies around the Black Sea have used Scythian arrowheads until the 5th century BC as their coins. The coins in the form of the Scythian arrowhead in the 5th century BC were transformed into a dolphin image by changing and continued to be used in the Greek colonial cities. In the last step of the change process on arrowhead coins, round-shaped coins emerging reflecting Greek and steppe cultural characteristics; on one side of these coins, it is seen that the use of Scythian arrow - bow descriptions continues. This work; it aims to evaluate the relationship between the use of arrowheads as money in the Northern Black Sea during the Cimmerians - Scythians period with the steppe culture and how the arrowhead-shaped coins have created and influenced among sedentary societies.