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Areyastis Monument  - Phrygian facade. 1889Areyastis Monument .  InscriptionsMidas MonumentMidas MonumentSteps up a cistern, Midas CitySteps down a cistern, Midas CityAcropolis of Midas Şehri, Altar. AfternoonMidas Şehri, AltarGerdek Rock Tomb, TurkeyAlaçan Rock IdolYapildak Tumulus

Location:

  • Türkiye, Yazılıkaya
  • geo:39.215775,30.725702
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Period or year:

  • -6xx~ / unknown

Class:

  • Castle
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=26512

Annotations

Pişmiş Kale (Dağlık Frigya) is located on a high rocky plateau , 108m above the valley level, about 1.2 km north of the Yazılıkaya Village. It has 3 entrances in the northeast, east and south. There are rock-cut silo pits and the monumental cistern descended with steps. This site was used as a castle at the end of the Middle Ages after the Phrygians.On the southwest slope of the caste is a Phrygian rock tomb.

See:

  1. Caroline Henriette Emilie Haspels, The Highlands of Phrygia. Sites and Monuments, Princeton 1971

Nearby

Gökgöz Kale

Phrygian fortress.

Kocabaş Kale - Kocabas Fortress

Kocabash Fortress - Phrygian fortress protecting Midassehri.

Areyastis Monument (1 km)

Areyastis (Arezastis) Monument. Also known as Areyastin Monument, Hasanbey Rock, Küçük Yazılıkaya.


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