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Location:

  • Türkiye, Şükraniye
  • geo:38.487,29.432699
  • Location ± 100-500 m.

Period or year:

  • -3000~ / -600

Class:

  • City
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=21094

Annotations

Tymion was an ancient town in Phrygia, inpresent village of Şükranje in the Turkish district of Karahallı, Uşak Province. The site of Tymion was occupied since the Late Bronze AgeThe site was an important town for the ancient Christian church of Montanism from the middle of the 2nd century AD to the middle of the 6th century AD. The very first traces  were identified on the hilly area. Later the settlement was established on the slope of the hill, and artifacts from the Roman and Byzantine periods were found here.

Sources:

  1. Peter Lampe, Die montanistischen Tymion und Pepouza im Lichte der neuen Tymioninschrift, in: Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum 8 (2004) 498-512
  2. William Tabbernee, Pepouza and Tymion: The Discovery of Pepouza and Tymion,  Journal of Early Christian Studies, 2003, pp. 87-94
  3. William Tabbernee, Peter Lampe: Pepouza and Tymion: The Discovery and Archaeological Exploration of a Lost Ancient City and an Imperial Estate,  De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston 2008
  4. https://www.academia.edu/34131357/_A%C3%A7%C4%B1ksaray_ve_%C3%87evresinde_Bizans_D%C3%B6nemi_Yerle%C5%9Fimleri_Y%C3%BCzey_Ara%C5%9Ft%C4%B1rmas%C4%B1_2013_32_Ara%C5%9Ft%C4%B1rma_Sonu%C3%A7lar%C4%B1_Toplant%C4%B1s%C4%B1_ed_Y_Ko%C5%9Far_2015_1_Cilt_535_552

Nearby

Pepuza [Pepouza] (9 km)

Roman town near the village of Karayakuplu. A settlement of Montanists. Karayakuplu Village, Karahallı Uşak

Pepouza (9 km)

Rock-carved monastery.

Pepouza, Eastern Marble Quarry (9 km)

Ancient marble quarry.


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