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Locatie:

  • Turkije, Kumkale
  • geo:39.993561,26.192612
  • Locatie ± 5-25 m.

Period or year:

  • -1200~ / unknown

Classificatie:

  • Graf (-veld)
  • Zichtbaar

Identifiers:

Annotaties

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Heinrich Schliemann, believed that this was the tomb of Achilles. Philostratus also seems to imply that this mound was recognized as the Achilleum. Alexander the Great made a pilgrimage to the tomb of Achiles at the start of his Asian Campaign.

See:

  1. Olivier Henry, Ute Kelp, Tumulus as Sema: Space, Politics, Culture and Religion in the First Millennium BC,Walter de Gruyter 2016, pp. 373 ff
  2. Jonathan S. Burgess, Tumuli of Achilles -file:///C:/Users/user/AppData/Local/Temp/file.pdf
  3. Casey Dué Hackney, Reviewed Work: The Death and Afterlife of Achilles by Jonathan S. Burgess, Hermathena, no. 188, Trinity College Dublin, 2010, pp. 71–76, http://www.jstor.org/stable/42950974.
  4. The Lost Tomb of Achilles-http://ancientheroes.net/blog/lost-tomb-of-achilles

Heinrich Schliemann, believed that this was the tomb of Achilles. Philostratus also seems to imply that this mound was recognized as the Achilleum. Alexander the Great made a pilgrimage to the tomb of Achiles at the start of his Asian Campaign.

See:

  1. Olivier Henry, Ute Kelp, Tumulus as Sema: Space, Politics, Culture and Religion in the First Millennium BC,Walter de Gruyter 2016, pp. 373 ff
  2. Jonathan S. Burgess, Tumuli of Achilles -file:///C:/Users/user/AppData/Local/Temp/file.pdf
  3. Casey Dué Hackney, Reviewed Work: The Death and Afterlife of Achilles by Jonathan S. Burgess, Hermathena, no. 188, Trinity College Dublin, 2010, pp. 71–76, http://www.jstor.org/stable/42950974.
  4. The Lost Tomb of Achilles-http://ancientheroes.net/blog/lost-tomb-of-achilles

In de buurt

Sigeum - Sigeion on the Scamander (1 km)

ancient Greek city in Troas

Kumtepe (1 km)

Neolithic settlement.

Kumkale Kalesi (1 km)

Kumkale Kalesi


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