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Docimium, Docimia or Docimeium (
Docimium, Docimia or Docimeium (Greek
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: and ) was an ancient city of Phrygia
In classical antiquity, Phrygia ( ; grc, Φρυγία, ''Phrygía'' ) was a kingdom in the west central part of Anatolia, in what is now Asian Turkey, centered on the Sangarios River. After its conquest, it became a region of the great empire ...
, Asia Minor
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where there were famous marble quarries.
History
This city, as appears from its coins – which bear the epigraph or – where the inhabitants are calledMacedon
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ians, may have been founded by Antigonos Dokimos. The city's name in Greek is Romanized as Dokimeion, Dokimia Kome, Dokimaion, and later Dokimion.
Strabo places Docimium somewhere about Synnada: he calls it a village, and says that there is there a quarry of Synnadic stone, as the Romans call it, but the people of the country call it Docimites and Docimaea; the quarry at first yielded only small pieces of the stone, but owing to the later efforts of the Romans large columns of one piece are taken out, which in variety come near the Alabastrites, so that, though the transport to the sea of such weights is troublesome, still both columns and slabs were brought to Rome of wondrous size and beauty. The red colors which streaked the white marble taken from the city's holy mountain were attributed to the drops of blood from the dying god Attis. The word ''Docimaea'' () in this passage of Strabo appears to be corrupt. It should be either or .
Strabo says that the plain of Synnada is about 60 stadia long, and beyond it is Docimium. We may, however, infer that he supposed Docimium to be not far from the limit of the plain. The Table makes it 32 M. P. between Synnada and Docimium, and Docimium is on the road from Synnada to Dorylaeum
Dorylaeum or Dorylaion ( el, Δορύλαιον; tr, Şarhöyük) was an ancient city in Anatolia. It is now an archaeological site located near the city of Eskişehir, Turkey.
Its original location was about 10 km southwest of Eskişehi ...
; but the number is certainly erroneous. 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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Adjacent provinces are Kütahya to the northwest, Uşak to the west, Denizli to the southwest, Burdur to the south, Isparta to the sou ...
.
Episcopal see
On this site have been found many Christian inscriptions, later than Constantine. Docimium was asuffragan
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of Synnada in Phrygia Salutaris
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.
Six or seven bishops are known, from 344 to 879 (Lequien
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, ''Oriens Christianus'', I, 853); another bishop is mentioned in an inscription.
Docimium is included in the Catholic Church
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's list of titular see
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s.''Annuario Pontificio 2013'' (Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2013 ), p. 882
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