Hestia Giustiniani, 2nd C. CE Roman copy of a Hellenic original 460 BCE
"The Scythians then have what most concerns them ready to hand. It remains now to show the customs which are established among them. The only Gods whom they propitiate by worship are these: Hestia in especial, and secondly Zeus and Earth, whom they deem to be the wife of Zeus; after these, Apollo, and the Heavenly Aphrodite, and Heracles, and Ares. All the Scythians worship these as Gods; the Scythians called Royal sacrifice also to Poseidon. In the Scythian tongue Hestia is called Tabiti: Zeus (in my judgment most rightly so called) Papaeus; Earth is Apia, Apollo Goetosyrus, the Heavenly Aphrodite Artimpasa, and Poseidon Thagimasadas. It is their practice to make images and altars and shrines for Ares, but for no other God."
-Herodotus, The Histories: Book 4, Chapter 59
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| Hestia Giustiniani, 2nd C. CE Roman copy of a Hellenic original 460 BCE. Height: 1.9 m (75.9 in). |
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