The
Mushki (
Muški; ) were an
Iron Age people of
Anatolia, known from
Assyrian sources. They do not appear in
Hittite records. Several authors have connected them with the
Moschoi (Μόσχοι) of Greek sources and the Georgian tribe of the
Meskhi.
Josephus Flavius identified the
Moschoi with the Biblical
Meshech. Two different groups are called
Muški in the Assyrian sources (
Diakonoff 1984:115), one from the 12th to 9th centuries, located near the confluence of the
Arsanias and the
Euphrates ("Eastern Mushki"), and the other in the 8th to 7th centuries, located in
Cappadocia and
Cilicia ("Western Mushki"). Assyrian sources identify the Western Mushki with the
Phrygians, while Greek sources clearly distinguish between Phrygians and Moschoi.