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Surroundings:

Pişmiş KaleAreyastis Monument  - Phrygian facade. 1889Areyastis Monument .  InscriptionsMidas MonumentMidas MonumentSteps up a cistern, Midas CitySteps down a cistern, Midas CityGerdek Rock Tomb, TurkeyAcropolis of Midas Şehri, Altar. AfternoonMidas Şehri, AltarAlaçan Rock IdolYapildak Tumulus

Location:

  • Türkiye, Yazılıkaya
  • geo:39.219833,30.724566
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Period or year:

  • 5xx / unknown

Class:

  • Castle
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=26516

Annotations

The Gökgöz Kale is a small fortress which was probably  an outpost for the Pishmish fortress. Dates tom the Phrygian perriod. Its entrance is from the west. There are niches, cisterns and steps carved into the rock on the plateau.

See:

  1. Caroline Henriette Emilie Haspels, The Highlands of Phrygia. Sites and Monuments, Princeton 1971
  2. Yusuf Polat, The Phrygian Rock Cut Religious Monument, BAR International S,eries 1739, 2008

Nearby

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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