Notes on Phrygian Architecture
A Sixth-Century BCE Date for the Midas Monument at Midas City
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7578784 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Geoffrey D Summers (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 127 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 189-207 |
| Publication date | 2023-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Archaeology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-9114 • E-ISSN: 1939-828X |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/723426 |
| OpenAlex | W4324139551 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 11 |
This article considers evidence for the form and materials used in monumental Phrygian architecture in Central Anatolia during the Middle Iron Age (eighth–sixth centuries BCE) to argue for a later (sixth-century BCE) date for the Midas Monument. Examination of this monument and other rock-cut architectural facades in the Phrygian Highlands leads to the conclusion that all of the monumental facades in the Phrygian Highlands represent buildings with low, double-pitched, tiled roofs and architectural terracotta revetment tiles that should be dated to the first half of the sixth century. This conclusion has significant implications for the history of Midas City itself and the nature of Lydian rule in Central Anatolia.1
Ancient history · Archaeology · Geography · Revetment · Sixth century · Terracotta · Ancient Near East History · Archaeology and Historical Studies · Architecture · Eurasian Exchange Networks · History
Cutting the Gordian knot
The Phrygian Artistic Intellect
Gordion and Phrygia in the Sixth Century B.C
Unfolding a Geometric Textile from 9th-Century Gordion
Midas, Matar, and Homer at Gordion and Midas City
The Chronology and Historical Context of Midas
Urartian and Achaemenian Tower Temples
Notes on Chronology in the Phrygian Highlands
Fieldwork at Phrygian Gordion, 2013-2015
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