The Old Phrygian Areyastis-inscription

Abstract

LUBOTSKYThe Old Phrygian (OPhr.)corpus comprises almost 240 inscriptions, of which only two contain more than ten words: the Germanos inscription (B-01) 1 and the so-called Areyastisinscription from Yazlkaya (W-01).The former, however, is rather worn and contains no word divisions.The Areyastis-inscription thus appears to be of paramount importance for the study of OPhr.Dating from the first half of the sixth century B.C. (Haspels 1971: 105), it is engraved with utmost care and is perfectly legible except for a few mutilated letters.The inscription has been edited and treated several times, but as the proposed interpretations are unsatisfactory 2 and as there is not even a consensus about the direction in which it must be read, it seems justified to look at this inscription once more.The Areyastis-inscription is engraved on a faade dedicated to Kybele (there is a niche for the statue of the goddess in the middle of the faade) and consists of three parts: (a) on the band around the pediment, (b) on the rugged rock surface above the faade, and (c) on the inner right-hand side below turning onto the faade (see Fig. 1).Brixhe and Lejeune in their standard work on the OPhr.inscriptions (1984: 38ff.)give the following text: W-01a.→ I vrekun : tedatoy :

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