It is known that the name Scythians for the first time shows up in the Assyrian documents of the middle of the 7 c. BC. The country of Scythians is called Ishkuza, Scythian kings were Ishpakai and Partatua¹

¹ Marija N. Pogrebova: Monuments of Scythian culture in Transcaucasia; in: Caucasus and Central Asia in an antiquity and Middle Ages. M., 1981