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Phrygian rock-cut shrines : structure, function, and cult practice

Title: Phrygian rock-cut shrines : structure, function, and cult practice / by Susanne Berndt-Ersöz.
Author: Berndt-Ersöz, Susanne.
Publication: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006.

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Description

xxiv, 410 pages : illustrations, maps; 30 cm.

Summary

This volume explores the Iron Age Phrygian rock-cut monuments in Anatolia and defines their role in religion. Among other features this book questions the traditional view of the Mother goddess Kybele being the only Phrygian deity. A detailed analysis based on the monuments provides new interpretations and aspects of Phrygian religion: the Mother goddess was not alone, but rather accompanied by a Superior male god. For the first time all known Phrygian rock-cut monuments are brought together in the useful corpus with plenty of illustrations. It is a unique and significant contribution to the study of Phrygian religion and spatial conceptualization and is useful both for those interested in Anatolian culture and archaeology but also in fields such as classical religion and archaeology.

Series Statement

Culture and history of the ancient Near East, 1566-2055 ; v. 25

Uniform Title

Culture and history of the ancient Near East ; v. 25.

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-290) and indexes.

Contents

Ch. I. Structural examination of the archaeological evidence -- Ch. II. Chronology -- Ch. III. Analysis of function and cult practice -- Ch. IV Summary and conclusions. -- Catalogue.

ISBN

9004152423
9789004152427

LCCN

2006049930
99815454587

OCLC

ocm70878038
70878038
SCSB-1416514

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library