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Document Details : Title: The Mother Goddess at the Black Sea Subtitle: Pushing Phrygia towards the North Author(s): SUMMERER, Lâtife , KOCH, Julia M. Journal: Ancient Near Eastern Studies Volume: 61 Date: 2024 Pages: 325-369 DOI: 10.2143/ANES.61.0.3294035 Abstract : Scholarship has often drawn attention to the Classical written sources suggesting that the Phrygian cultural sphere reached far north to the Black Sea coast; however, direct evidence seemed to lack, given the challenges of gathering and synthesising the disparate archaeological material. Although noted, but not widely appreciated is the early evidence for veneration of the Mother Goddess with the name Kybebos in Amisos, and a few sculptures from the coastal sites that are only tentatively dated to the eighth to seventh century BCE. Yet, the question of the extent and nature of Phrygian influence at the Black Sea coast remains open to discussion. Recent archaeological discoveries at the different excavated sites brought a number of archaeological materials to the light that can be more securely assigned to the Phrygian cultural sphere. This paper will present a survey of archaeological evidence for a comprehensive analysis of broader cultural networks of Phrygia and draw on the thesis that the southern Black Sea coast was a middle ground for cultural encounters between Greek colonists and Phrygians. |
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