Istvánovits Eszter: International Connections... (Jósa András Múzeum Kiadványai 47. Aszód-Nyíregyháza, 2001)

Andrea Vaday: Military system of the Sarmatians

Веке Pál halma (VADAY 1989A, 266, Kat. 276) sites. A warrior with a tamga(?) shell pendant, a sword and a torque was buried at Újszilvás, the Dunaharaszti grave contained tamga and gold grave-goods, and the sword with ring-shaped pommel from SzolnokBeke Pál halma also suggested a high-ranking warrior. The distribution of the sites (fig. 2) reveals the strategic importance of the military roads east of Aquincum and of the Tisza ford at Szolnok. In the light of the above, the position of the Jazyges as compared to the Quadi appears as follows according to Tacitus's report: 50 IMPERIUM ROMAN UM Ф (rex Quadis dams) QUADI ^1 Vannius Rex Quadorum Optimates Ф JAZYGES METANASTAE Ф Pedites Equités Gens Quadorum Gens Jazygum Metanastarum 68/69 terminus post quern IMPERIUM ROMANUM Ф (gens fidei) Regnum Quadorum (gens) Civitas Jazygum Metanastarum (gens) Vangio et Sido Reges Quadorum Ф Gentes barbarorum foedetae «-* Principes (penes quos civitatis regimen) Ф УК Cotini Gentes tribuentes Osi The position of the Sarmatians changed fundamentally after Trajan's Dacian wars and with the foundation of Dacia province. They crossed the Tisza during the years of the war and occupied new territories in the Banat. Some of these territories were later attached to the new province by Trajan, who also tolerated their simultaneous conquests in the central and southern parts of the lands east of the Tisza. The Jazygian expansion became necessary following the arrival in the Carpathian Basin of the largest part of the main body, led by the king, and the assumption by the Roxolanian tribe, under the leadership of the Roxolanian king, of the power position in the Lower Danube region (VADAY 1977).