Italy: Sarmatian cataphracts during Dacian Wars as depicted on Trajan's Column. Sculpture by Apollodorus of Damascus (c. 65-130 CE), 113 CE. The Scythians were an ancient Iranian people of horse-riding nomadic pastoralists who throughout Classical Antiquity dominated the Pontic-Caspian steppe, known at the time as Scythia. By Late Antiquity the closely-related Sarmatians came to dominate the Scythians in the west.

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