Yilantas - Snake Stone is Phrygian rock grave from the VI century BC. The name is deceptive for the grave broken into pieces and a part of the rocks just shows the tail of the lion. Also known as the ‘Broken Lion Tomb’ after William Ramsay.
See:
- Catherina Draycott: Convoy Commanders and other Military Identities in Tomb Art of Western Anatolia around the time of the Persian Wars, XVII International Congress of Classical Archaeolog y, Roma 22-26 Sept. 2008 Session: Being ‘Graeco-Persian’, Bollettino di Archeologia on line, Vol. Speziale, Roma 2008, pp. 17-19
- idem, Activating the Achaemenid Landscape. The Broken Lion Tomb (Yılan Taş) and the Phrygian Highlands in the Achaemenid Period. In G.R. Tsetskhladze (ed) Phrygia in Antiquity, Colloquia Antiqua 24, Leuven: Peeters Press 2018, pp.189-218.





