Book contents
- Ancient Gordion
- Case Studies in Early Societies
- Ancient Gordion
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Inventing Identity
- 3 Contextualizing the Ceramic Assemblage
- 4 Identifying Gordion’s Groups
- 5 The Late Bronze Age Community at Gordion
- 6 Reconstituting Community in the Early Iron Age
- 7 New Identities, New Communities
- 8 Enacting Power
- 9 Identities in Flux
- 10 Conclusion
- Appendix Eski Çağ’da Gordion:
- References
- Index
8 - Enacting Power
The Middle Phrygian Period YHSS 5 800–540 BCE
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 September 2022
Book contents
- Ancient Gordion
- Case Studies in Early Societies
- Ancient Gordion
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Inventing Identity
- 3 Contextualizing the Ceramic Assemblage
- 4 Identifying Gordion’s Groups
- 5 The Late Bronze Age Community at Gordion
- 6 Reconstituting Community in the Early Iron Age
- 7 New Identities, New Communities
- 8 Enacting Power
- 9 Identities in Flux
- 10 Conclusion
- Appendix Eski Çağ’da Gordion:
- References
- Index
Summary
From the ninth to the seventh century BCE, Phrygia was one of multiple emerging polities across Anatolia. To the east, mid ninth century BCE Urartian rulers extended their power into northern Mesopotamia (Inomata and Coben 2006). To the west, along the Aegean coast, Greek colonists established new cities and broadened their influence south and east along the Mediterranean coast (Greaves 2011). In central Anatolia, Phrygia became the dominant political force (Fig. 7.1).
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- Ancient Gordion , pp. 227 - 300Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022