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The Phrygian cap, also known as Thracian cap and liberty cap, is a soft conical cap with the apex bent over, associated in antiquity with several peoples in Eastern Europe, Anatolia, and Asia. The Phr
Dacian prisoner with Phrygian cap, Roman statue from the 2nd century
A Parthian (right) wearing a Phrygian cap, 203 AD
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Paris of Troy
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The Phrygians were an ancient Indo-European speaking people who inhabited central-western Anatolia in antiquity.
Phrygian cap
…with several peoples in Eastern Europe, Anatolia, and Asia. The Phrygian cap was worn by Thracians, Dacians, Persians, Medes, Scythians, Trojans, and Phrygians after whom it is named. The oldest known depiction of the Phrygian cap is from Persepolis in Iran. Although Phrygian caps did not originally function…
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Phrygian soldiers. Detail from a reconstruction of a Phrygian building at Pazarlı, Çorum, Turkey, 7th–6th centuries BC.
Tomb at ‘Midas City’, near Eskişehir (sixth century BC)
The Phrygian goddess Cybele with her attributes