Argippaeans

The Argippaioi ( Ἀργιππαῖοι, turned German Argippäer ) are an ancient Central Asian people, from Herodotus' Histories (4, 23) is known.

Herodotus

" Behind the river Tanais " end of the Scythian land and begin it on a stretch " of fifteen days' journey " a barren, treeless land that was inhabited by the Sauromates. In the subsequent land, heavily forested, according to Herodotus lived Budinoi. Attached to this country wide, a desert, and even further north only lived tribes of hunters. Herodotus' descriptions of still further to the north and the " foot of high mountains ( living ) people who should be bald from birth, and that men and women ... " .. He called Argippaioi. According to Herodotus, they have " lived on a good rich soil from the trees ," under which they lived and their branches, they stressed, lived felt in winter. Of the fruit of the trees they fed in part - a kind of date, from their contents, inter alia, they manufactured in conjunction with formula milk. Livelihood was a little sheep farming and gathering wild fruits.

Herodotus: " No one does this a sufferer, because they are considered to be sacred, too, have no warlike weapon, while they are the ones who arbitrate the disputes between the neighbors and who has escaped to them as a refugee, where no one is doing any harm. ". They were regarded by the Scythians. The Scythians drove with them a regular trading on interpreters - maybe they were the middlemen for Siberian gold on the Ob and Altai. Their settlement area lay at the foot of high mountains, under trees that were wrapped in winter with felt. Their heads were, according to Herodotus bald, both men and women. Your Language Herodotus was unknown.

Their neighbors were the Arimaspen, gold hats gripping ends and the Issedonen. These Argippaioi people came out of the broad region that extends down to the Borysthenes ( trading center on the eponymous river ( Dnieper ) ), and even some commercial centers on the Black Sea and to the west Scythian settlement areas involving.

Phillips assumes that they are identical to the Arimphaei of Pliny ( Natural History 6, 34).