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Sep 5, 2019 · Phrygia became a part of the Roman province of Asia in 116 BCE & the region now grew in scope, at least as a geographical term. After the campaigns of Alexander the Great, the region of Phrygia/Lydia came under the control of one of Alexander's successors, Antigonus I (382-301 BCE).
- Mark Cartwright
Obrador-Cursach (2020) analysed a new Phrygian inscription from Dorylaion, that mentions the gods Miθrapata, Mas Tembrogios and the Pontic Bas. Other attested deities in the Phrygian corpus are Ti-' Zeus ', βας ' the shining one '; and borrowed deities artimitos ' Artemis ', mas ' Men ' (possibly a moon god) and διουνσιν ' Dionysos '.
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New Phrygian is attested in 117 funerary inscriptions, mostly curses against desecrators added after a Greek epitaph. New Phrygian was written in the Greek alphabet between the 1st and 3rd centuries CE and is restricted to the western part of ancient Phrygia, in central Anatolia.
- After the 5th century AD
This article provides specific details on the alphabetic script and language of the Phrygians, who appeared in Anatolia during the Early Iron Age, ca. 1200–1000 BCE and retained a distinctive identity there until the end of Classical antiquity. Phrygian settlements can be recognized by the presence of texts in the Phrygian language ...
All letters, some represented by more than one symbols, were capitals and Phrygian text was mostly written left-to-right though about one sixth of known corpus presents a right-to-left orientation, with multi-line inscriptions in Boustrophedon (alternate lines in reverse orientation).
Phrygian language, ancient Indo-European language of west-central Anatolia. Textual evidence for Phrygian falls into two distinct groups. Old Phrygian texts date from the 8th to 3rd centuries bce and are written in an alphabet related to but different from that of Greek.
Oct 5, 2015 · Before their arrival in Asia, the Phrygians settled last in southeastern Europe, in Macedonia and Thrace. From there, doubtless at the turn of the thirteenth and twelfth centuries bce, they moved to Asia Minor to settle down first at the south of the Propontis.
