<Li> Dug - dam - mei (Dugdammê) king of the Ummân - Manda (nomads) appears in a prayer of Ashurbanipal to Marduk, on a fragment at the British Museum . According to professor Harmatta, it goes back to Old Iranian Duγda - maya "giving happiness". Other spellings include Dugdammi, and Tugdammê . Edwin M. Yamauchi also interprets the name as Iranian, citing Ossetic Tux - domæg "Ruling with Strength ." The name appears corrupted to Lygdamis in Strabo 1.3. 21 . </Li> <Li> Sandaksatru, son of Dugdamme . This is an Iranian reading of the name, and Manfred Mayrhofer (1981) points out that the name may also be read as Sandakurru . Mayrhofer likewise rejects the interpretation of "with pure regency" as a mixing of Iranian and Indo - Aryan . Ivancik suggests an association with the Anatolian deity Sanda . According to Professor J. Harmatta, it goes back to Old Iranian Sanda - Kuru "Splendid Son". Kur / Kuru is still used as "son" in the Kurdish languages, and in modified form in Persian as korr, for the male offspring of horses . </Li> <P> Some researchers have attempted to trace various place names to Cimmerian origins . It has been suggested that Cimmerium gave rise to the Turkic toponym Qırım (which in turn gave rise to the name "Crimea"). </P> <P> Based on ancient Greek historical sources, a Thracian or a Celtic association is sometimes assumed . According to Carl Ferdinand Friedrich Lehmann - Haupt, the language of the Cimmerians could have been a "missing link" between Thracian and Iranian . </P>

Who were the cimmerians and where did they come from