The so-called Midas Monument at Phrygian Yazılıkaya formerly identified as the tomb of Midas, The niche at the bottom, with graffiti : MATAR (Mother, i.e. the goddess Cybele) and it probably held a statue of goddess.
The facade contains a dedication in Paleo Phrygian by Ates son of Arkias to Midas
Sources:
- Mark Henderson Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, And the Tyranny of Asia. A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion, University of California Press, Ltd. London 2006, pp. 70 f.
- Emilie Haspels: I am the Last of the Travelers. Midas City Excavation and Surveys in the Highlands of Phrygia, eds. von Dietrich Berndt. Arkeoloji ve Sanat, II ed. Istanbul 2012.
- Piotr Bienkowski, Alan Millard, Dictionary of the Ancient Near East, p. 198.
- Caroline Henriette Emilie Haspels, The Highlands of Phrygia. Sites and Monuments, Princeton 1971
- William Mitchell Ramsay, "The Rock Necropoleis of Phrygia", Journal of Hellenic Studies 3, 1882, pp. 1-32.
- Yazilikaya - Midas Sehri-http://www.tayproject.org/TAYages.fm$Retrieve?CagNo=10280&html=ages_detail_e.html&layout=web
- Yusuf Polat, The Phrygian Rock Cut Religious Monument, BAR International Series 1739, 2008
- idem:The Phrygian Rock Cut Religious Monuments, the Destructions of the Monuments and their Restoration Processes (425-430), Symposium on Mediterrranean Archaeology (SOMA 2005), 2008, pp. 425-430
