Un Phrygien sur l’Agora: redécouverte d’une inscription paléo-phrygienne
- Authors
- Type
- Published Article
- Journal
- Kadmos
- Publisher
- De Gruyter
- Publication Date
- Feb 01, 2022
- Volume
- 61
- Issue
- 1-2
- Pages
- 165–182
- Identifiers
- DOI: 10.1515/kadmos-2022-0010
- Source
- De Gruyter
- Keywords
- Disciplines
- License
- Yellow
Abstract
This article discusses a brief inscription incised on a cup found on the Athenian Agora and which has been published in 1976. This graffito appears to be an Old Phrygian inscription, the first known so far on this side of the Aegean Sea. It corresponds to a new personal name, whose stem could be identical to that of Phrygian place names attested in Greek sources. An etymological hypothesis is suggested about the stem, which could reveal the Phrygian name of the “goat”. The object thus incised in the Phrygian alphabet may have belonged to a metic or a Phrygian travelling to Athens.
