Les inscriptions phrygiennes de Kerkenes Dağ (Anatolie centrale)

Abstract

Le site internet, www.kerkenes.metu.edu.tr, présente de nombreuses informations préliminaires, une bibliographie des publications du projet et des versions numérisées de rapports inédits. Une série de monographies est en préparation dont un volume sera consacré à la sculpture et au matériel apparenté.Kadmos Bd. 45, S. 93-135

The rare letters of the Phrygian alphabet revisited

“…The lunate-shaped character was discovered for the first time in the Phrygian inscription from Kerkenes discovered in (Brixhe and Summers 2006. The character is found twice in the sequence ]xpaᴄuvaᴄx[ preserved on a fragment no.…”

Phrygians east of the red river: Phrygianisation, migration and desertion

“…The language of the two inscriptions discovered so far, both on a single block that also bore small-scale relief carving ( fig. 6), is Palaeo-Phrygian, as is that of the alphabetic characters impressed into or scratched onto the surface of pottery (Brixhe, Summers 2006). No other written language is (yet) represented.…”

Philippa M. Steele and Philip J. Boyes, eds. Writing Around the Ancient Mediterranean: Practices and Adaptations (Contexts of and Relations between Early Writing Systems 6. Oxford & Philadelphia: Oxbow Books, 2022, 320 pp., hbk, ISBN 978-1-78925-850-9)

“…Obrador-Cursach, 2020, which currently stands as the most recent comprehensive study of the Phrygian language, texts, and lexicon). On the grounds of chronological and structural evidence, the author puts forward a novel explanation for the Phrygian rare lunette-like sign that was previously interpreted as a sort of interpunction sign (Brixhe & Summers, 2006), as an early variant of sign no. 20, which in turn might find a later development in the Pamphylian alphabet.…”