Orthocorybantians edit
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The Tigrakhauda relief of eastern stairs of the Apadana.

The Orthocorybantians (Old Persian tigra-xauda "people with pointy hats") were a tribe of the Scythians. They were settling in the eleventh satrapy of Achaemenid Persia (Herodotus 3.92). A delegation of Orthocorybantians paying tribute is depicted on the Apadana relief.