The Scythians by Barry Cunliffe
Author:Barry Cunliffe [Cunliffe, Barry]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9780192551870
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2019-10-14T16:00:00+00:00
8.8 The body of the man buried beneath kurgan 2 at Pazyryk was heavily tattooed (opposite). The inset (right) shows two of the images of twisted animal motifs adorning one of his arms.
It seems that scarring was also practised by some groups of Scythians. Pseudo-Hippocrates refers to them ‘cauterizing their shoulders, arms, hands, chests, thighs, and loins for no other purpose than to avoid weakness and flabbiness and to become energetic’. Although the writer is keen to suggest a medical reason for this deliberate scarring, it may simply have been a coming of age ritual. Herodotus also mentions ritual mutilation during funerary ceremonies when the mourners slit their ears, cut their hands, and thrust arrows through their left hand. Such activities will have left visible scars as a sign that the correct rites had been observed.
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