ABSTRACT
Tinen, the mythical father of Durdzukos and 'the most distinguished of the sons ofKavkasos' (Wak./Brosset, p. 427), has been equated by Genko, following Golovinski, with the name of the Tindy 'a very ancient people who lived in the land of the Galayevtsy (Ingushes) and moved thereafter - it is not known whither or when'. It is tempting to hazard that the Tindy represented the Thyni of Herodotus, I, 28, who were associated with the Mysians (= Mushki= G. Meskheni) and Phrygians in the eastward movement of Thracian peoples into Anatolia during the period of the decline of the Hittite empire.2
