It is a pleasure for me to write a paper on an important issue in Anatolian archaeology for my dear friend and colleague Aykut Cinaroğlu, whom I irst met in 1984 when he had a Fellowship at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (later in Ankara I met often his wonderful wife and daughters and their sweet dog, Tarçin). INTRODUCTION This paper continues the discussion presented in Muscarella 2003 (see also Muscarella 2005/2006: 395, and note 4) concerning the date of the destruction level (DL) at Gordion that terminated the Early Phrygian (EP) period there. I argued that the destruction occurred some time close to 700 B.C. (+/-), not in the late 9 th century B C. as maintained in publications and public lectures by the Gordion Team excavators since 2001. The aims of the present paper are to augment some of the issues I raised previously and to present additional and relevant information, thus to expand the data available in the published record. One of the stimuli that generated this review is the growing number of scholars who have uncritically (to me, without relection) accepted the 9 th century B.C. destruction date, and thereby simultaneously embraced the consequent profound historical and archaeological implications for irst millennium B.  C. Aegean and Anatolian archaeology and history. For example, Prayon (2004: 611) states that the New Chronology has a “weitreichenden Konsequenz für die historisch- politischen wie auch künstlerischen Entwicklungenun Zusammenhänge,” which he then proceeds to document; Prayon and Wittke (2004: 122-23) note that “das bisherige Bild der phrygischen Kultur und des Phrygischen Reiches grundlegend verändern….” See also Kelp (2004: 286, 293); Strobel (2004: 259, 265-68); Genz (2004: 221, 224); Dusinberre (2005: 4, 10, 220-22); Crielaard (2007: 223); and Summers (2006: 2). In January 2001, a laboratory (Heidelberg) informed the Gordion Team 1 that based on C-14 analysis, the EP citadel of Gordion had been destroyed ca. 830-807/800 B.C. (for details see Muscarella 2003: 225-6, 250). The report was immediately and unhesitatingly accepted: for here, was an “objective scientiic” fact presented by a scientist working in a scientiic laboratory, and thus the previously maintained, for decades, archaeologically argued and thus “subjective” dating of the destruction, ca. 700 B. C., was rejected. The New Chronology, as it came to be designated, was declared a fait accompli, one vigorously upheld by the Gordion Team. The laboratory report was irst publicly announced at the Fifth Anatolian Iron Age Conference in Van in August 2001 (where, verbally, I irst challenged it; for a modiied version of the Van announcement see DeVries et al 2005). In the same year a brief statement reporting the New Chronology was published (Manning et al 2001: 2534; see below). Two Oscar White Muscarella - Again Gordion’s Early Phrygian Destruction Date: ca. 700 +/- B.C. AGAIN GORDION’S EARLY PHRYGIAN DESTRUCTION DATE: ca. 700 +/- B.C. Oscar White Muscarella 1 The Gordion Team consists primarily of a quartet, Mary Voigt, Kenneth Sams, Keith DeVries, and Peter Kunihlom.