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  • Phrygian cap notes

    Phrygian cap notes

    The Phrygian cap or liberty cap is a soft conical cap with the apex bent over, associated in antiquity with several peoples in Eastern Europe and Anatolia, including the Persians, the Medes and the Scythians, as well as in the Balkans, Dacia, Thrace and in Phrygia, where the name originated. The oldest depiction of the Phrygian cap is from Persepolis in Iran. This article is about the headgear. For the medical term, see Phrygian cap (anatomy). Although Phrygian…

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