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New Phrygian is attested in 117 funerary inscriptions, mostly curses against desecrators added after a Greek epitaph. New Phrygian was written in the Greek alphabet between the 1st and 3rd centuries CE and is restricted to the western part of ancient Phrygia, in central Anatolia.
A conventional date of c. 1180 BC is often used for the influx (traditionally from Thrace) of the pre-Phrygian Bryges or Mushki, corresponding to the very end of the Hittite Empire. Following this date, Phrygia retained a separate cultural identity.
The Old Phrygian alphabet emerges towards the late ninth century BC and was the script employed in Phrygian texts, as attested in near 400 inscriptions found in Anatolia and beyond, as far as around 330 BC when it was supplanted by the Neo-Phrygian (rightmost column).
Sep 5, 2019 · Phrygia was conquered by the Cimmerians in the 7th century BCE but the period of domination by Lydia and Persia has left an impoverished archaeological record. We know that Lydia expanded under the reign of the Mermnad dynasty (c. 700-546 BCE), and especially King Gyges (r. c. 680-645 BCE).
- Mark Cartwright
By the eighth century bc, Phrygia stretched from Dascylium in northwestern Asia Minor to Akalan at the Black Sea, and in the South, Phrygian cultural influence reached as far as Kelainai (modern Dinar) and Düver (or Döğer) in northern Lycia, the Konya plain, and Tyana in Cappadocia.
The theonym derives from the common Phrygian word for ‘god,’ the outcome of PIE *dhh1-s-ó- (NIL 102, see Lubotsky 1998, 419), a cognate of Greek θεός, and is well attested in the dative plural (δεως) in New Phrygian inscriptions.
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Phrygian power reached its peak in the late 8th century BC under another historical king, Midas, who dominated most of western and central Anatolia and rivaled Assyria and Urartu for power in eastern Anatolia.
