The Mushki (sometimes transliterated as Muški) were an Iron Age people of Anatolia who appear in sources from Assyria but not from the Hittites. [1] Several authors have connected them with the Moschoi (Μόσχοι) of Greek sources and the Georgian tribe of the Meskhi. [2] Josephus Flavius identified the Moschoi with the Biblical Meshech.

Apr 19, 2020 · According to Assyrian records, the Mushki, with their allies the Urumu and Kaska (sometimes called Gagas, Kaskians, or Apishlu) attempted to invade Assyria from the north around 1165 BCE, taking control of Purukuzzi and Alzi (which may have been a variant of the name “Azzi”). These Mushki were retroactively coined “the Eastern Mushki.”

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Note that there are are two different groups called "Mushki" in the Assyrian sources: one group of Mushki captured Alzi and Purulumzi (near the confluence of the Arsanias and the Euphrates) around 1165 B.C. They are in evidence as an agricultural population in this region right up to the beginning of the 9th century B.C.

By 1115 B.C. the Mushki resumed their advance and, numbering twenty thousand men under five chieftains, they descended into the valley of the Upper Tigris (Kadmuhi), creating a serious threat to the Assyrian possessions.

The Mushki/Phrygian Problem from the Near Eastern Point of View KONSTANTINOS KOPANIAS Abstract This paper presents an extensive analysis of the available Greek, Assyrian, Babylonian, and Achaemenid texts referring to the Phrygians and the Mushki, respectively. In recent years, several studies have been published which propose that these

At present three absolutely different views exist concerning the Mushki problem. According to one, the "eastern" Mushki were the vanguard group of the Balkanic Indo-European peoples (i.e., bearers of Proto-Armenian) who during the early XII B.C. had …