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Treasury of King MidasAslankaya, Phrygian Rock TempleBeyköy - Yumruktepe.Beyköy - YumruktepeElements of the Phrygian statues.Phrygian graveMaltaş Monument, 2021Göynüş KalesiASLANTAŞ

Location:

  • Türkiye, Üçlerkayası
  • geo:39.091034,30.44285
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Period or year:

  • -575~ / unknown

Class:

  • Temple or sanctuary
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=77318

Annotations

 Büyük Kapi Kaya is locally called Halili Kaya (Carpeted Rock) due to decorations on it.

Sources:

  1. Yusuf Polat, Yazılıkaya-Midas Vadisi Araştırmalarında Bulunan Bir Kaya İdolü (139-154), Colloquium Anatolicum 18/ 2019, pp. 139-154
  2. idem: The Phrygian Rock Cut Religious Monuments, the Destructions of the Monuments and their Restoration Processes (425-430), Symposium on Mediterrranean Archaeology (SOMA 2005), 2008, pp. 425-430
  3. Elizabeth Simpson, The Gordion Wooden Objects, Volume 1 The Furniture from Tumulus MM, Brill 2010, p. 93
  4. Büyük Kapi Kaya Aniti, http://ww.w.tayproject.org/TAYmaster.fm$Retrieve? YerlesmeNo=6817&html=masterEngDetail.html&layout=web
  5.  Caroline Henriette Emilie Haspels  Haspels, The Highlands of Phrygia. Sites and Monuments, Princeton 2009
  6. idem: I am the Last of the Travellers, Midas City Excavation and Surveys in the Highlands of Phrygia, (Ed. D. Berndt with contributions by H. Çambel), İstanbul.

Nearby

Kırkmerdiven Kale (1 km)

Phygian fortress.

Üçler Kayasi (1 km)

Üçlerkayasi. Üçkayacik.

Treasury of King Midas (1 km)

Treasury of King Midas


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