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Mar 1, 2024 · Phrygian (not comparable) Of or relating to Phrygia, its people. , or their culture. Written or spoken in the Phrygian language. 2022, R. F. Kuang, Babel, Harper Voyager, page 114: ‘Then one day one of the infants stretched out his little hands to the shepherd and exclaimed bekos, which is the Phrygian word for bread.’.
Mar 23, 2023 · Beyond these text witnesses, the Phrygian language is documented in some thirty glosses preserved in Greek texts. The Old Phrygian corpus consists of almost 400 texts from a wide area across Phrygia and encompasses different text genres, such as dedications and other religious texts, diplomatic documents, and many graffiti, dating from the ...
Yazılı (also: Yazılıkaya, lit. 'inscribed rock'), Phrygian Yazılıkaya, or Midas Kenti (Midas city) is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of Alpu, Eskişehir Province, Turkey. [1] Its population is 45 (2022). [2] It is located about 27 km south of Seyitgazi, 66 km south of Eskişehir, and 51 km north of Afyonkarahisar.
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The Phrygian language. Phrygian is one of the oldest and least attested Indo-European languages. It is far from being completely understood and decipherment is still in progress. Unlike other poorly attested languages, Phrygian has written records in the Phrygian and later the Greek alphabet.
Hittite (natively: 𒌷𒉌𒅆𒇷, romanized: nešili / "the language of Neša", or nešumnili / "the language of the people of Neša"), also known as Nesite (Nešite/Neshite, Nessite), is an extinct Indo-European language that was spoken by the Hittites, a people of Bronze Age Anatolia who created an empire centred on Hattusa, as well as parts of the northern Levant and Upper Mesopotamia.
Midas. In the Nathaniel Hawthorne version of the Midas myth, Midas' daughter turns to a golden statue when he touches her (illustration by Walter Crane for the 1893 edition) Midas ( / ˈmaɪdəs /; Greek: Μίδας) was the name of a king in Phrygia with whom several myths became associated, as well as two later members of the Phrygian royal ...