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  • Türkiye, Üçlerkayası
  • geo:39.105034,30.4291

Period or year

  • -5xx / unknown

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  • graves
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Yilantas, Phrygian Grave

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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:

  1. 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
  2. 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.

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Creators: Entry created by Elżbieta (2016-12-10) , with possible contributions by others. CC BY-SA 4.0, metadata CC-0.
Persistent URI: https://vici.org/vici/30438
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Suggested citation: Elżbieta , Yilantas, Phrygian Grave. https://vici.org/vici/30438, accessed 2026-11-06.