Mysians
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Mysians were the inhabitants of Mysia, a region in northwestern Asia Minor.
Funerary stela for Xenokles the Mysian
Vessel terminating in the forepart of a bull MET DT6177
Carians
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The Carians were the ancient inhabitants of Caria in southwest Anatolia, who spoke the Carian language.
Mysians
…the Augur, and were lion-hearted spearmen who fought with their bare hands. Herodotus in his Histories wrote that the Mysians were brethren of the Carians and the Lydians, originally Lydian colonists in their country, and as such, they had the right to worship alongside their relative nations in the…
Location of Caria within the classical regions of Asia Minor
Carian soldier of the Achaemenid army c. 480 BC. Tomb of Xerxes I.
Ancient copy of the cult image of a local Hellenistic goddess as Aphrodite at Aphrodisias
Archaeologists studying a Carian tomb in Milas, Beçin.