Phrygian rock-cut shrines
Subtitle: structure, function, and cult practice
By: by Susanne Berndt-Ersöz.
Series: Culture and history of the ancient Near East -- v. 25
Publisher: Brill; BRILL
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 410
Subjects: Shrines -- Phrygia.; Monuments -- Phrygia.; Cults -- Phrygia.; Turkey -- Antiquities.; Phrygia -- Antiquities.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.