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Locatie

  • Turkije, Üçlerkayası
  • geo:39.10638,30.42738

Periode of jaar

  • -6xx / unknown

Classificatie

  • Tempel of heiligdom
  • Zichtbaar

Aslankaya, Kybele Temple

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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

In de buurt

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Bijdrage: Aangemaakt door Elżbieta (2016-12-10) , met mogelijke bijdragen van anderen. CC BY-SA 4.0, metadata CC-0.
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Voorgestelde citatiewijze: Elżbieta , Aslankaya, Kybele Temple. https://vici.org/vici/30433, opgevraagd op 2026-11-03.