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Surroundings:

So called MidasGreat TumulusMidas Grave - reconstructionTumulus MM - Midas MoundTomb, chamber 1Tomb, chamber 2Gordion - excavations 2009Gordion - excavations 2009Gordion - excavations 2009Gordion - excavations 2009Gordium CitadelTo GordionTumulus W - GordionCitadel of Gordion

Location:

  • Türkiye, Yassıhüyük
  • geo:39.651855,31.998144
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Period or year:

  • -760~ / unknown

Class:

  • Grave or burial field
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=24024

Annotations

Tumulus P - T 241was a child grave built ca 760 BC. Room-like burial chamber made of wood and covered with soil contains scheleton of a 4-5 years old person. With the child many wooden toys in a shape of diffrent animals was dicovered.

  1. Elisabeth Simpson, A Parasol from Tumulus P at Gordion [ Gordion'da P Tümülüsü'nden Bir Güneş Şemsiyesi ] - http://www.academia.edu/7117549
  2. Machteld Johanna Mellink, A Hittite cemetery at Gordion, Philadelphia : University Museum, University of Pennsylvania 1956
  3. https://www.penn.museum/sites/expedition/tumulus-mm/

References

  1. http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/ilanlar/eskiilanlar/2015/07/20150715-4-1.pdf


Nearby

Gordion, Tumulus R

Phrygian Royal Necropolis

Tumulus - Gordion [T30] - Tumulus S

Phrygian Royal Necropolis. Tumulus S.

Yassihüyük, Museum of Gordium

Yassihüyük, Museum of Gordium


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