Phrygia in Antiquity: From the Bronze Age to the Byzantine Period: Proceedings of an International Conference ‘The Phrygian Lands over Time: From Prehistory to the Middle of the 1st Millennium AD’, held at Anadolu University, Eskişehir, Turkey, 2nd–8th November, 2015

Table of Contents
Preface • Gocha R. Tsetskhladze
List of Illustrations
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Pre-Hellenistic Phrygia: Some Matters in Debate • Gocha R. Tsetskhladze
PART I: FROM MIDAS TO CHRISTIANITY
	1 Phrygia: Between East and West • Maya Vassileva
	2 Phrygia and Hellenism: Phrygian Interactions with Asia Minor Greeks, 8th–6th Centuries BC • Lynn E. Roller
	3 Midas and Matar: The Intertwining of Phrygian Politics and Cult • Cecily Grace
	4 To Drink Bull’s Blood: An Analysis of the Story of Midas • Susanne Berndt
	5 The ‘Golden’ Midas: Phrygian Metalworking in Early and Middle Iron Age • Anne-Maria Wittke.
	6 Midas in the Trojan War: Refractions of the Archetypal Phrygian King in the Trojan Allies Glaucus, Sarpedon, Nastes and Amphimachus • Guy P. Smoot
	7 The Luwian Origin of the Phrygian Imprecations • Bartomeu Obrador-Cursach
	8 The Eastern Border of Phrygia • A.Tuba Ökse
	9 Activating the Achaemenid Landscape: The Broken Lion Tomb (Yılan Taş) and the Phrygian Highlands in the Achaemenid Period • Catherine M. Draycott
	10 Roman Senators from Phrygia • Olga Pelcer-Vujačić
	11 Roman Fine Ware Production and Circulation in Central Turkey • Andrew L. Goldman
	12 Phrygia in the Byzantine Period and the Continuity of the Rock-Cut Architecture Tradition of the Region • B. Yelda Uçkan and Seçkin Evcim
	13 From the Pagan to the Christian World in the Centres of Phrygia Epiktetos: Is there Any ‘Transformation’ or ‘Transition’ Period for the Rural People? • Erkan İznik
	14 Deciphering Phrygian: Blind Alleys and Viable Ways • Anna Elisabeth Hämmig
	15 Phrygian Personal Names in Phrygian Inscriptions • Alexandru Avram
	16 Remarques sur l’onomastique et l’acculturation en Phrygie Parorée • Hadrien Bru
PART II: FROM REGION TO SITES
	17 The Eskişehir Region in the Early Bronze Age • Deniz Sarı
	18 The Middle Bronze Age Layer of Seyitömer Höyük – the West End of the Phrygian Region • A. Nejat Bilgen
	19 Iron Age Burial Customs in Central Anatolia: the View from Boğazköy • Hermann Genz
	20 Iron Age Pottery from Suluca Karahöyük and its Possibility of Being ‘Phrygian’ Atila • Türker and Mehmet Ali Özdemir
	21 The Ethnic Composition of the Halys Basin and its Surrounding Area in Protohistorical Times and the Iron Age • Şevket Dönmez
	22 The Cult of Cybele in Hierapolis of Phrygia • Francesco D’Andria
	23 Midas City in Phrygia: Small Horizontal Reliefs between Idols and Step Monuments • Dietrich Berndt
	24 The North Necropolis and a Soldier’s Grave from Aizanoi in Phrygia • Elif Özer
	25 Kerkenes and Phrygia: Old and New Directions of Research • Scott Branting, Yasemin Özarslan, Joseph Lehner, John M. Marston and Sarah R. Graff
	26 Stratigraphic Sequence at Şarhöyük/Dorylaion: An Overview • Mahmut Bilge Baştürk
	27 Şarhöyük (Dorylaion) during the Hellenistic Period • Turgay Yaşar Yedidağ
	28 Studies on Hellenistic and Roman Pottery from the Kanlitaş Survey • Alptekin Oransay
	29 The ‘Temple State’ of Phrygian Pessinus in the Context of Seleucid, Attalid, Galatian and Roman Hegemonic Politics (3rd–1st Centuries BC) • Altay Coşkun
	30 Beneath Pessinus: Archaeological Insights from Non-Invasive Investigations • Armin Schmidt and Gocha R. Tsetskhladze
	31 Pessinus: Unravelling the Urban Armature • Simon Young
	32 Late Roman Fortifications in Galatia • Paolo Maranzana
	33 Monumentality upon Logos: Tomb Architecture in the Sacred Area of Phrygia, Significance and New Interpretations • R. Eser Kortanoğlu
Appendix: Conference Programme and Abstracts
List of Contributors
Index