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Surroundings:

Dülük Baba Tepesi, Altar of TurmasgadeDülük Baba Tepesi, Altar of TurmasgadeStele of DolicheDülük Baba TepesiRock cut church at DolicheStone quarry of DolicheDoliche QuarryStorm-God of ÇağdınNecropolis of DolicheMithreum I, DolicheDoliche, mosaic floor of a late antique building

Location:

  • Türkiye, Beylerbeyi
  • geo:37.127987,37.345554
  • Exact location

Period or year:

  • -9xx~ / 2xx

Class:

  • Vicus or canabae
  • invisible

Identifiers:

Annotations

The city of Doliche, has a reputation as the homeland of the god Jupiter Dolichenus. This god was wordhipped from the 1st century AD. until the 3rd century in the Roman Empire.

Sources:

  1. Getzel M. Cohen, The Hellenistic Settlements in Syria, the Red Sea Basin, and North Africa, University of California Pres 2006, pp. 155-156
  2. T.A. Sinclair, Eastern Turkey: An Architectural & Archaeological Survey, Volume IV, Pindar Press, London 1990
  3. Miguel John Versluys, Visual Style and Constructing Identity in the Hellenistic World: Nemrud Dagi and Commagene under Antiochos I, Cambridge University Press 2017, pp.88-90
  4. http://www.doliche.de/doliche/

Nearby

Dülük Baba Tepesi, Jupiter Dolichenus

Jupiter Dolichenus sanctuary.

Offering Stele of Doliche

Duluk Baba Tepesi, Doliche


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