A misidentified Old Phrygian parietal graffito from Salihler

Abstract

This paper revisits a previously published graffito read among other Greek inscriptions on rock near Salihler, reinterpreting it as an Old Phrygian text that features an anthroponymic sequence. While one of the names, urakas, has been documented previously in Gordion, a iyas is entirely new to the Phrygian corpus. Notably, this identification provides a new instance of the much-debated Phrygian letter no. 22.