The Carian sancturay of Gerga dates back to the Archaic period. The most intriguing is tthe temple with the inscription in front of it The inscriptions of the some sacred steles or statues may suggest that the Mother Goddess was worshipped with her local name.
There are four spring houses of the same plan in the area of the temple. A. Baran suggests that these spring houses indicate the existence of a Sacred Way leading to Gergakome, perhaps from Alabanda.
Many inscriptions written on rocks have been discovered . They are spread across many places, with the temenos terrace as the center.
See:
- G. E. Bean, Gerga in Caria, Anatolian Studies Vol. 19 (1969), pp. 179-182 (7 pages)
- Coşkun Bilgi, Osman Doğanay, The Cult of Mother Goddess in Gerga, Conference: Cult and Sanctuary Through The Ages At: Slovakia, Trnava 2008 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/358214282_The_Cult_of_Mother_Goddess_in_Gerga
- Winfried Held, Gergakome. Ein ‚altehrwürdiges‘ Heiligtum im kaiserzeitlichen Karien, Istanbuler Forschungen Band 49 (Tübingen 2008)
- Abdulkadir Baran, The Sacred Way and the spring houses of Labraunda sanctuary, in:Labraunda and Karia Proceedings of the International Symposium Commemorating Sixty Years of Swedish Archaeological Work in Labraunda. The Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities Stockholm, November 20–21, 2008
- Nilay iğrek, Batı Anadolu'daki Kutsal Yollar, Aydin 2023
- https://www.anatolianarchaeology.net/gerga-inscribed-monumental-statue-found-in-farmhouse-14-years-ago-left-to-its-fate/