Detail of the front panel of the roman sarcophagus adorned with a relief representing the submission of the Sarmatians .

Cortile Ottagono, Museo Pio-Clementino of the Vatican Museums.

The Sarmatians were an Iranian people of the classical antiquity period, flourishing from about the 5th century BC to the 4th century AD.

They spoke Scythian, an Indo-European language from the Eastern Iranian family.