Phrygian Rock-Cut Shrines

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Phrygian Rock-Cut Shrines is written by Susanne Berndt-Ersöz and published by BRILL. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 904741022X (ISBN 10) and 9789047410225 (ISBN 13).

This volume explores the Iron Age Phrygian rock-cut monuments in Anatolia and defines their role in religion. Among other features this book questions the traditional view of the Mother goddess Kybele being the only Phrygian deity. A detailed analysis based on the monuments provides new interpretations and aspects of Phrygian religion: the Mother goddess was not alone, but rather accompanied by a Superior male god. For the first time all known Phrygian rock-cut monuments are brought together in this useful corpus with plenty of illustrations. It is a unique and significant contribution to the study of Phrygian religion and spatial conceptualization and is useful for those interested in Anatolian culture and archaeology and classical religion and archaeology.