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Maeotians
The Maeotians (, ''Maiōtai''; (ラテン語:Mæotæ)〔Other variant transcriptions include Mæotians, Maeotae, Maeotici, and Mæotici.〕) were an ancient people dwelling along the Sea of Azov, which was known in antiquity as the "Maeotian marshes" or "Lake Maeotis".〔James, Edward Boucher. ("Maeotae" and "Maeotis Palus" ) in the ''Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography'', , . Walton & Maberly (London), 1857. Accessed 26 Aug 2014.〕
==Identity==
The etymology of the name and identity of the people remain unclear. Edward James 〔 and William Smith were of the opinion that the term Maeotian was applied broadly to various peoples around the Sea of Azov, rather than the name of the sea deriving from a certain people. Their subdivisions included the Sindi, the Dandarii, the Toreatae, the Agri, the Arrechi, the Tarpetes, the Obidiaceni, the Sittaceni, the Dosci, and "many" others.〔Strabo. ''Geographica'', xi. .〕 Of these, the Sindi are the best attested. and they were probably the dominant people among the Maeotians. The language of the Maeotians or even language family is uncertain. One princess of the Ixomates was called Tirgatao,〔Polyaenus. ''Stratagems'', 8.55.〕 comparable to ''Tirgutawiya'', a name on a tablet discovered in Hurrian Alalakh.〔AT 298 II.11.〕
Karl Eichwald claimed that the Maeotians originated as an "Hindu" (Indian) colony,〔Eichwald, Karl. Alt Geogr. d. Kasp. M. 〕 but this view is rejected by the majority of scholars.〔Bayer, Acta Petrop. ix. .〕〔St. Croix, Mem. de l'Ac. des Inscr. xlvi. .〕〔Larcher, ad Herod. vii. 〕〔Ukert, Friedrich August, , .〕 Soviet archaeologists, historians, and ethnographers concluded the Maeotians were one of the Circassian tribes. The Cambridge Ancient History classifies the Maeotians as either of a people of Cimmerian ancestry or as Caucasian aboriginals under Iranian overlorship.〔
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