The Luwian Origin of the Phrygian Imprecations

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)

“…The reader is also adequately directed to scholarship for previous hypotheses, which are often challenged (e.g. 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.…”