The “Decline” of Bronze Age wanax: The Phrygian vanak-, the PriestKing, the ‘Wanax to Basileus Model’ and the Power Relations in Phrygian Society
The “Decline” of Bronze Age wanax: The Phrygian vanak-, the PriestKing, the ‘Wanax to Basileus Model’ and the Power Relations in Phrygian Society

Summary/Abstract: The nature of the Phrygian ruler’s institution is discussed in the article in order to elucidate its place in the potestary-political system of the society. On the basis of supposition that the inscription on the Midas Monument’s rock-cut façade was consecrated not to the king Midas but to the goddess Mida an attempt to underline the necessity of further analysis of the questions about the meaning of the titles lavagt-, vanak- and others, the origins of the supreme titles in the Phrygian titulature, the presence of the priest-king in the Phrygian potestary-plitical system, the validity of the so called ‘Wanax to Basileus model’ in view of the Phrygian example etc., was made.

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