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Surroundings:

Milet BridgeEdessa AqueductKızılkoyun necropolisUrfa man - Balıklıgöl statueUrfa man - Balıklıgöl statueFishponds of AbrahamEdessa - citadelEdessa - citadelEdessa - citadelEdessa - citadelSt. James Monastery, UrfaHamzan Tepe

Location:

  • Türkiye, Şanlıurfa
  • geo:37.162083,38.786777
  • Location ± 100-500 m.

Period or year:

  • 50~ / unknown

Class:

  • Grave or burial field
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=29269

Annotations

The Abgar Mosaic was found in 1979 on Çamlık Hill in the Urfa Şehitlik District.

See:

  1. http://arkeofili.com/?p=18120
  2. Emran El-Badawi, Tales of King Abgar: A Basis to Investigate Earliest Syrian Christian Syncretism - http://www.suryoyo.uni-goettingen.de/library/Emran-ElBadawi-Abgar.pdf
  3. http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/abgar-dynasty-of-edessa-2nd-century-bc-to-3rd-century-ad
  4. Barış Salman, Family, Death and Afterlife According to Mosaics of the Abgar Royal Period in the Region of Osroene, Journal of Mosaic Research . 2008, Vol. 1/2, p103-115 - https://www.academia.edu/6066970
  5. http://lootbusters.blogspot.com/2016/10/edessa-mosaics-with-syriac-inscriptions.html

Nearby

Milet Bridge

Milet Bridge

Edessa Aqueduct

Edessa Aqueduct


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