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Treasury of King MidasBüyük Kapıkaya MonmentBeyköy - Yumruktepe.Beyköy - Yumruktepe

Location:

  • Türkiye, Üçlerkayası
  • geo:39.10638,30.42738
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Period or year:

  • -6xx / unknown

Class:

  • Temple or sanctuary
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=30433

Annotations

Aslankaya - Lion`s Rock is located ca 5 km from Döğer Town. The Phrygian temple of  the goddesr Cybele, carved into an outcropping of volcanic rock. The Phrygian facade  is on the south side of the rock. The pediment covered pair of two antithetic sphinxes. Below, statue of Kybele was flanked by two lions.

See:

  1. Mark Henderson Munn: The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the tyranny of Asia. University of California Press, 2006, p. 76
  2. Elke und Hans-Dieter Kaspar: "Phrygien - ein sagenumwobenes Königreich in Anatolien", Hausen 1990
  3. Lynn E. Roller: In search of god the mother: the cult of Anatolian Cybele University of California Press, 1999
  4. Yusuf Polat, 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

Nearby

Phyrgian Temple

Phyrgian Temple

Yilantas, Phrygian Grave

Yilan Tas - Broken Lion Tomb.

Kırkmerdiven Kale (1 km)

Phygian fortress.


This object was added by Elżbieta on 2016-12-10. Last update by Elżbieta on 2022-09-30. Persistent URI: http://vici.org/vici/30433 . Download as RDF/XML, KML.
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