Pepuza (Greek: Πέπουζα Pepouza) was an ancient town in Phrygia, Asia Minor (in today's Karahallı District, Uşak Province, in Turkey's Aegean Region).
Since 2001, Peter Lampe of the University of Heidelberg has directed annual archaeological campaigns in Phrygia, Turkey.
During these interdisciplinary campaigns, together with William Tabbernee of Tulsa, numerous unknown ancient settlements were discovered and archaeologically documented.
Two of them are the best candidates so far in the search for the identification of the two holy centres of ancient Montanism, Pepuza and Tymion.
[1][2] Historians such as W. Weiss, T. Gnoli, S. Destephen, M. Ritter, C. M. Robeck, T. D. Barnes, M. Mazza,[3] and the renown classical historian and epigrapher Stephen Mitchell (2023) affirm that Lampe and his team can "claim credit for identifying the location of the Montanist centres Pepuza and Tymion".