SARMAȚII DE LA NORDUL MĂRII NEGRE ÎN SURSELE EPIGRAFICE.

A critical re-evaluation of the entire ancient tradition about the Sarmatians -- literary, epigraphic, numismatic, iconographic and onomastic data --, with the exhaustive cataloguing and analysis of the available sources, would not only allow a clearer overview of the generic term 'Sarmatians' (respectively on other ethnonyms associated with them), but would also provide a more appropriate term of comparison for archaeologists concerned with the phenomenon of Sarmatian culture. Announcing for the coming years the compilation of a compendium entitled Fontes Sarmatarum orae septentrionalis Ponti Euxini, the author proposes in this paper a catalogue containing 46 inscriptions, with the Romanian translation and brief comments in the case of most documents. When compiling this compendium, account was taken of inscriptions from North- Pontic cities or outside the Euxine Pontus that refer only to North-Pontic Sarmatians (or to some ethnonyms associated with them), disregarding the numerous attestations of the title Sarmaticus assumed by some Roman Emperors, the documents in which the Bosporan Kings Sauromates IIII appear, the tamga-signs and the onomastic material (found mainly in the inscriptions of the imperial period from Olbia and Bosporan cities). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]