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The Phrygians were an ancient Indo-European speaking people who inhabited central-western Anatolia in antiquity.
Phrygians
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
Phrygian language
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The Phrygian language was the Indo-European language of the Phrygians, spoken in Anatolia, during classical antiquity.
Phrygians
…which was also worn by Mithras and survived into modern imagery as the "liberty cap" of the American and French revolutionaries. Phrygians spoke the Phrygian language, a member of the Indo-European linguistic family. Modern consensus regards Greek as its closest relative. A conventional date of c. 1180 BC is often…
6th century BCE inscription with the Phrygian alphabet from the Midas Tomb, Midas City: ΒΑΒΑ: ΜΕΜΕϜΑΙΣ: ΠΡΟΙΤΑϜΟΣ: ΚΦΙJΑΝΑϜΕJΟΣ: ΣΙΚΕΝΕΜΑΝ: ΕΔΑΕΣ (Baba, memevais, proitavos kziyanaveyos sikeneman edaes; Baba, advisor, leader from Tyana, dedicated this niche).
The Midas inscription over the cornice of the Midas monument. It reads Ates... Midai lavagtaei vanaktei edaes ("Ates... has dedicated [this monument) to Midas, leader of the people and ruler").