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Phrygian cap From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search This article is about the Asian headgear. For the medical term, see Phrygian cap (anatomy). Bust of Attis wearing a Phrygian cap (Parian marble, 2nd century AD). The Phrygian cap is a soft conical cap with the top pulled forward, associated in antiquity with the inhabitants of Phrygia, a region of central Anatolia. In the western provinces of the Roman Empire it came to signify freedom and the pursuit of liberty, perhaps through a confusion with the pileus, the felt cap of manumitted (emancipated) slaves of ancient Rome. Accordingly, the Phrygian cap is sometimes called a liberty cap; in artistic representations it signifies freedom and the pursuit of liberty.
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