Saka Queen Tomyris by Agimsaly Duzelkhanov
"Tomyris (/ˈtɒmɪrɪs/; Ancient Greek: Τόμυρις, romanized: Tómuris; Latin: Tomyris) also called Thomyris, Tomris, or Tomiride, reigned over the Massagetae, an Iranian Saka people of Central Asia. Tomyris was the widowed wife of the king of the Massagetae, whom she succeeded as the queen of the tribe after he died. Tomyris led her armies to defend against an attack by Cyrus the Great of the Achaemenid Empire, and, according to Herodotus, defeated and killed him in 530 BCE.
The name Tomyris is the Latin form of the Ancient Greek name Tómuris (Τόμυρις), which is itself the Hellenisation of a Scythian name meaning "of family" derived from a cognate of the Avestan word taoxman and of the Old Persian word taumā (𐎫𐎢𐎶𐎠), meaning "seed," "germ," and "kinship,"."
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| Saka Queen Tomyris by Agimsaly Duzelkhanov. |
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| I couldn't find a hi-res version of the full image. These were all I could find. |
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