An inscription bearing the name of the ancient city was found at the excavation site in Gordion, the capital of the Phrygians.
Posted on 08/11/2022 9:53:24 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
An inscription bearing the name of the ancient city was found at the excavation site in Gordion, the capital of the Phrygians.
In 1900, a 3-month excavation was carried out in the ancient city, which was discovered by the brothers Alfred and Gustav Körte during the construction of the Berlin-Istanbul-Baghdad railway line in the Polatlı district of Ankara.
Although the Körte brothers determined that the capital of the ancient city of Phrygian was Gordion, no information confirming this could be found so far.
The excavations, which were restarted in 1950 after a long break, are now being carried out by the team led by Professor C. Brian Rose from the University of Pennsylvania Museum, with the permission and supervision of the General Directorate of Cultural Heritage and Museums of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism.
Located just southeast of the confluence of the Sakarya and Porsuk rivers, the Gordion archeological site. It is located 117 kilometers (72.7 miles) from downtown Ankara, the capital of Turkey, northwest of central Polatli.
This year, a Phrygian stone inscription was found in the area of the ancient city called the outer city. The inscription, dated to the years when I. Antiochus (281-261 BC) reigned in the Hellenistic Period, is the first and only inscription in which the name Gordion is mentioned.
The inscription, which is thought to be related to a tumulus tomb, is also notable for being the longest inscription ever found in Gordion.
The earliest known inscriptions in Phrygian date from the 8th century BC and were written in an alphabet derived from Phoenician. The language of these inscriptions is known as Paleo-Phrygian. Later inscriptions, in Neo-Phrygian, were written in a version of the Greek alphabet.
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Those Friggin’ Phrygians again!..................
Says:
For a good time call.................
One of *those* topics.
Maybe that’s the culture where the term Gordian Knot comes from.
The birthplace of Gordian knots.
Home of some of the greatest knots the world has ever seen.
It’s a story connected to Alexander the Great, and probably had little to do with some past king of Phrygia, even if it were true. :^) It’s still in use, having been handed down (now called Turk’s head knot).
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The Phrygians invented the rephrygerator in 750 B.C.
lol
I think it would be thrilling to find those carvings and then decipher them. It is mind-boggling to try to imagine that stone as it was being carved.
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