Dokimeion
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thumb|Sarcophagus dated between 150 and 180 in Dokimeion marble Docimium, Docimia or Docimeium (Greek: and ) was an ancient city of Phrygia, Asia Minor where there were famous marble quarries. The exact site of Docimium was a matter of some dispute until recently; it is now fixed at the modern Turkish town İscehisar, in Afyonkarahisar Province.
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thumb|Sarcophagus dated between 150 and 180 in Dokimeion marble Docimium, Docimia or Docimeium (Greek: and ) was an ancient city of Phrygia, Asia Minor where there were famous marble quarries. The exact site of Docimium was a matter of some dispute until recently; it is now fixed at the modern Turkish town İscehisar, in Afyonkarahisar Province.
==History== This city, as appears from its coins – which bear the epigraph or – where the inhabitants are called Macedonians, may have been founded by Antigonos Dokimos. The city's name in Greek is Romanized as Dokimeion, Dokimia Kome, Dokimaion, and later Dokimion.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dokimeion” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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