Midasstadt in Phrygien: Eine Sagenumwobene Statte im anatolischen Hochland.

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Midasstadt in Phrygien: Eine Sagenumwobene Statte im anatolischen Hochland. By DIETRICH BERNDT. Zaberns Bilderbande zur Archaologie. Mainz: VERLAG PHILIPP VON ZABERN, 2002. Pp. 80, illus. [euro]34.80.

Besides its extensively excavated, well published, and consequently familiar capital of Gordion, the Anatolian kingdom of Phrygia has left us a second major archaeological site, the religious center now known as Midaskale, or "Midas City," not far from present-day Eskisehir. Judging from the scanty inscriptional evidence as well as from the numerous divine symbols carved on the living rock throughout the 22-hectare precinct, the settlement, whose ancient name remains uncertain, was dedicated to the Phrygian Mother Goddess, or Kybele.

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