ABSTRACT
Montanism, a movement of prophesying and continuing revelation, originated in second-century Phrygia. Its hub was in Pepouza. Its earliest followers may have called it 'the Prophecy' or 'the New Prophecy', which is what Tertullian its best-known advocate called it. The term 'Montanism' is anachronistic for its earliest phase and appears first in Cyril of Jerusalem's fourth-century Catachetical Lectures. 'Montanism' derives from the name of Montanus, a prophet who with two female prophets called Prisca/Priscilla and Maximilla initiated a movement within Christianity which spread quickly and came into conflict with the developing catholic tradition. Montanus first prophesied in a backwater somewhere in 'Phrygian-Mysia', at a place known as Ardabau. Pepouza became administratively and spiritually Montanism's centre. In July 2000 there emerged the first epigraphy mentioning Tymion (Latinised Tymium): an imperial rescript from the joint consulships of Antoninus Pius and Septimius Geta.
