<P> The 19th - century British scholar George Rawlinson wrote: </P> <P> We have reasonable grounds for regarding the Gimirri, or Cimmerians, who first appeared on the confines of Assyria and Media in the seventh century B.C., and the Sacae of the Behistun Rock, nearly two centuries later, as identical with the Beth - Khumree of Samaria, or the Ten Tribes of the House of Israel . </P> <P> Adherents point out that the Behistun Inscription connects the people known in Old Persian and Elamite as Saka, Sacae or Scythian with the people known in Babylonian as Gimirri or Cimmerian . </P> <P> It should be made clear from the start that the terms' Cimmerian' and' Scythian' were interchangeable: in Akkadian the name Iskuzai (Asguzai) occurs only exceptionally . Gimirrai (Gamir) was the normal designation for' Cimmerians' as well as' Scythians' in Akkadian . </P>

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