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Originally appearing in Volume V14, Page 886 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ISSEDONES , an See also:

ancient See also:people of Central See also:Asia at the end of the See also:trade route leading See also:north-See also:east from See also:Scythia (q.v.), described by See also:Herodotus (iv. 26). The position of their See also:country is fixed as the Tarym See also:basin by the more precise indications of See also:Ptolemy, who tells how a Syrian See also:merchant penetrated as far, as Issedon. They had their wives in See also:common and were accustomed to slay the old people, eat their flesh and make cups of their skulls. Such usages survived among Tibetan tribes and make it likely that the Issedones were of Tibetan See also:race. Some of the Issedones seem to have invaded the country of the See also:Massagetae to the See also:west, and similar customs are assigned to a See also:section of these. (E. H. M.) On the origin of the name, see the See also:article by H. W. See also:Hogg, Ency. Bib. See also:col.

2290; E. See also:

Meyer, Israeliten, p. 536 seq.

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