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Yapi Kredi Museum exhibit explores Phrygian culture
Today's Zaman ^ | Wednesday, January 2, 2008 | unattributed

Posted on 01/01/2008 4:46:12 PM PST by SunkenCiv

Istanbul's Yapi Kredi Vedat Nedim Tor Museum is hosting an archaeology exhibition called "Phrygia," showcasing a selection of major Phrygian artifacts on loan from various museums in Turkey, including the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations in Ankara and the Istanbul Archaeology Museum.

The exhibit, held under scientific advice from archaeologist Taciser Sivas, will run until April 13.
Yapi Kredi Museum exhibit explores Phrygian culture

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KEYWORDS: anatolia; archaeology; godsgravesglyphs; gordion; kingmidas; midas; midasgrog; museum; phrygia; phrygian; phrygians; turkey
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My parents' first refrigerator was made in Phrygia. Or maybe I'm remembering that wrong.
1 posted on 01/01/2008 4:46:13 PM PST by SunkenCiv
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2 posted on 01/01/2008 4:47:07 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________Profile updated Sunday, December 30, 2007)
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To: SunkenCiv

There are just too many phrygian cultures to keep up with.


3 posted on 01/01/2008 5:04:15 PM PST by A.Hun (Common sense is no longer common.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Happy New Year SunkenCiv!

Regards


4 posted on 01/01/2008 5:07:16 PM PST by ARE SOLE (Agents Ramos and Campean are in prison at this very moment.. (A "Concerned Citizen".)
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To: ARE SOLE

:’) HNY2U2.


5 posted on 01/01/2008 5:09:56 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________Profile updated Sunday, December 30, 2007)
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Archaeologists Rewrite Timeline Of Bronze And Iron Ages, Alphabet
  Posted by blam
On News/Activism ^ 12/24/2001 8:04:31 AM EST · 19 replies · 478+ views


Cornell University | 12-19-2001 | Blaine P. Friedlander Jr.
Archaeologists rewrite timeline of Bronze and Iron Ages, including early appearance of alphabet FOR RELEASE: Dec. 19, 2001 Contact: Blaine P. Friedlander Jr. Office: 607-255-3290 E-Mail: bpf2@cornell.edu ITHACA, N.Y. -- Using information gleaned from the sun's solar cycles and tree rings, archaeologists are rewriting the timeline of the Bronze and Iron Ages. The research dates certain artifacts of the ancient eastern Mediterranean decades earlier than previously thought. And it places an early appearance of the alphabet outside Phoenicia at around 740 B.C. Writing in two articles in the forthcoming issue of the journal Science (Dec. 21), archaeologists from Cornell University ...
 

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On News/Activism 12/24/2001 10:12:01 PM PST · 6 replies · 1+ view


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On News/Activism 12/24/2001 10:20:40 PM PST · 52 replies · 123+ views


NYT | 12/25/2001 | John Noble Wilford
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On News/Activism 04/15/2003 10:36:32 AM PDT · 4 replies · 25+ views


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On News/Activism 09/16/2003 5:33:47 PM PDT · 44 replies · 29+ views


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On General/Chat 12/01/2003 9:25:02 PM PST · 14 replies · 5+ views


The New York Times | December 2, 2003 | John Noble Wilford
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On News/Activism 03/25/2004 12:03:11 PM PST · 13 replies · 10+ views


The Telegraph (UK) | 3-24-2004
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  Posted by SunkenCiv
On News/Activism 07/18/2004 6:43:19 PM PDT · 11 replies · 458+ views


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  Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 07/29/2004 11:43:38 PM PDT · 5 replies · 124+ views


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On News/Activism 08/04/2004 8:51:53 PM PDT · 25 replies · 633+ views


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  Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 08/25/2004 10:30:51 PM PDT · 2 replies · 80+ views


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  Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 08/28/2004 4:07:50 PM PDT · 2 replies · 55+ views


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  Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat ^ 04/24/2007 11:51:46 AM EDT · 10 replies · 294+ views


BBC | Friday, January 4, 2002 | unattributed
A sculpture found in Greece in 1939 may have been part of King Midas' lost throne, an archaeologist has said. The 23cm-tall ivory sculpture, known to scholars as The Lion Tamer, has puzzled historians of classical Greece since its discovery... Keith DeVries, of the University of Pennsylvania's Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, said there are signs that it once adorned Midas' royal throne... Mr DeVries said the sculpture appears to be Phrygian and to have been produced around the time that Midas was alive... According to Mr DeVries, Midas donated his throne as a gift to Delphi, where it was...
 

Yapi Kredi Museum exhibit explores Phrygian culture
  Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat ^ 01/01/2008 7:46:12 PM EST · 4 replies


Today's Zaman | Wednesday, January 2, 2008 | unattributed
Istanbul's Yapi Kredi Vedat Nedim Tor Museum is hosting an archaeology exhibition called "Phrygia," showcasing a selection of major Phrygian artifacts on loan from various museums in Turkey, including the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations in Ankara and the Istanbul Archaeology Museum. The exhibit, held under scientific advice from archaeologist Taciser Sivas, will run until April 13.
 

6 posted on 01/01/2008 6:16:16 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________Profile updated Sunday, December 30, 2007)
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To: SunkenCiv

Well, does that phrygian fridge still work?


7 posted on 01/01/2008 9:36:10 PM PST by Rudder
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To: Rudder

It lasted a mere 45 years.


8 posted on 01/02/2008 3:39:15 AM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________Profile updated Sunday, December 30, 2007)
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METROPOLIS (Ayazin Köyü-Afyon), Phryg kaya yerleşimleri.Phrygia'nın önemli kentlerinden biridir. Görsel kalıntıları tatmin edicidir.

ASLANTAŞ FRİG ANITI Seyitgaz - Afyon anayolundan sapılarak ulaşılır. Göynüş Vadisinde yer alır. Yakınında yerleşim yeri yoktur. Yolu asvaltlanmış, ulaşımı kolaydır.

GESUNDHEIT! (Prhygia-aslanta, look at the lions! Have you seen this before?)

9 posted on 01/02/2008 3:48:16 AM PST by Fred Nerks (FAIR DINKUM!)
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To: SunkenCiv

Wasn’t one of the moons around Ming the Merciless’ planet named Phrygia in “Flash Gordon?” I think the Hawkmen lived there...or not. It’s been a while.


10 posted on 01/02/2008 4:29:14 AM PST by CholeraJoe ("At last my arm is complete!" Sweeney Todd)
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Never saw it. :’) Using real-life names in fiction seems to be common though.


11 posted on 01/02/2008 4:38:04 AM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________Profile updated Sunday, December 30, 2007)
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To: Fred Nerks

At first those I thought those pics were of Roman or post-Roman Christian hideouts, carved into the cliffs, but those lions on their hinds and facing each other is a Phrygrian (and Mycenaean) motif.


12 posted on 01/02/2008 4:39:31 AM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________Profile updated Sunday, December 30, 2007)
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The images below are from a Japanese site. Something rather nasty must have happened...or the Phrygians were very untidy, hmmm?


13 posted on 01/02/2008 6:03:27 PM PST by Fred Nerks (FAIR DINKUM!)
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To: Fred Nerks

Those images are from Phrygian sites though?


14 posted on 01/02/2008 10:45:56 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________Profile updated Sunday, December 30, 2007)
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To: SunkenCiv

Yes:

http://www.ne.jp/asahi/hikyo/yamaya/phrygiam.htm


15 posted on 01/02/2008 11:38:46 PM PST by Fred Nerks (FAIR DINKUM!)
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To: Fred Nerks

It’s a very earthquake-prone part of the world unfortunately.


16 posted on 01/03/2008 12:09:13 AM PST by L.M.H.
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To: Fred Nerks

The above is described as The temple to Mita (Kybele) the Anotolian fertility goddess at Midas Sehri

HERE

17 posted on 01/03/2008 1:33:17 AM PST by Fred Nerks (FAIR DINKUM!)
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http://www.varchive.org/dag/lionga.htm

“The Lion Gate of Mycenae

The Lion Gate of Mycenae was the entrance to the city. Atop the gate, two lions rampant are carved in stone relief. Similar bas-reliefs of two lions rampant facing each other are found in a number of places in Phrygia in Asia Minor...”


18 posted on 01/03/2008 1:40:23 AM PST by Fred Nerks (FAIR DINKUM!)
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To: SunkenCiv
That Cybele got around, obviously. ( I know nothing!)

A famous plate showing the Phrygian goddess Cybele in her lion-drawn chariot, the Greek sun god Helios, and an Iranian fire altar.

www.livius.org


19 posted on 01/03/2008 1:58:31 AM PST by Fred Nerks (FAIR DINKUM!)
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To: SunkenCiv

You never told me Gordion had a Tumulus...

http://www.people.umass.edu/bwhitchu/MidasIndexGordionTumulusKingMidas20002.jpg


20 posted on 01/03/2008 2:02:32 AM PST by Fred Nerks (FAIR DINKUM!)
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