KERKENES DAG˘ PROJECT
Sunday, 18. October 2009, 03:49:23
Excavations in the Monumental Entranceway to the Palace Complex
Situated at a critical juncture in the history of the ancient Near East, from just before the fall of Nineveh and the Assyrian empire in 612 b.c. to the rise of Cyrus the Great and the Persian empire some sixty years later, this enormous ancient city was no doubt a key center during this tumultuous period.
The “Father of History” Herodotus (I.76) recounts the role that the city of Pteria, most likely Kerkenes Da©, played in the early rise of Cyrus and his destruction of the Lydian empire under Croesus. Evidence from these excavations in the entranceway to the Palace Complex have helped to confirm the dating of the city to this period, while at the same time allowing the revision of some of our initial assumptions drawn from this historical passage....
Herodotus, however, merely refers to the people as Pterians and clearly differentiates them from the people who lived in the surrounding countryside. With the inscription in Phrygian discovered in these
excavations as well as architectural elements with affinities in the Phrygian Highlands, we can now see the prominence of Phrygianspeaking peoples among the leadership of the city. In fact from the inscription we have the actual names of some of the people that likely lived in the city, people such as Masa, Uva, Urgis, and Tata....
notes:
We know that Phrygians (Macedonians) spoke Macedonian (so-called Indo-European) language.
Compared with the Sanskrit language, these "names" means:
Masa=man; moon; measure , weight
Uva=full moon; new moon ; young man ; youth...
Urgis=town,place ; halo round the sun or moon ; going, riding;..
Tata=father; great man...
nice..."names"..
Scott Branting
http://oi.uchicago.edu/
http://www.kerkenes.metu.edu.tr/
Situated at a critical juncture in the history of the ancient Near East, from just before the fall of Nineveh and the Assyrian empire in 612 b.c. to the rise of Cyrus the Great and the Persian empire some sixty years later, this enormous ancient city was no doubt a key center during this tumultuous period.
The “Father of History” Herodotus (I.76) recounts the role that the city of Pteria, most likely Kerkenes Da©, played in the early rise of Cyrus and his destruction of the Lydian empire under Croesus. Evidence from these excavations in the entranceway to the Palace Complex have helped to confirm the dating of the city to this period, while at the same time allowing the revision of some of our initial assumptions drawn from this historical passage....Herodotus, however, merely refers to the people as Pterians and clearly differentiates them from the people who lived in the surrounding countryside. With the inscription in Phrygian discovered in these
excavations as well as architectural elements with affinities in the Phrygian Highlands, we can now see the prominence of Phrygianspeaking peoples among the leadership of the city. In fact from the inscription we have the actual names of some of the people that likely lived in the city, people such as Masa, Uva, Urgis, and Tata....
notes:
We know that Phrygians (Macedonians) spoke Macedonian (so-called Indo-European) language.
Compared with the Sanskrit language, these "names" means:
Masa=man; moon; measure , weight
Uva=full moon; new moon ; young man ; youth...
Urgis=town,place ; halo round the sun or moon ; going, riding;..
Tata=father; great man...
nice..."names"..
Scott Branting
http://oi.uchicago.edu/
http://www.kerkenes.metu.edu.tr/
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