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Location

  • Türkiye, Urla
  • geo:38.33329,26.832529

Period or year

  • -3000 / -3xx~

Classification

  • temple
  • Visible

İnkaya Cave

data access 34493

İnkaya Cave is a cave located on the eastern slope of Kocadağ, within the borders of Yelki Mahallesi, Güzelbahçe district, İzmir province.

The narrow entrance facing the east and leads into a large hall with rooms around . It was used as a ritual site from 3000 BC until the Roman times continuously. Niches, votive vessels and human skeletons were found in the hall and other areas of the cave.

Source:

  1. http://arkeofili.com/?p=16188
  2. http://www.tayproject.org/Magara.fm$Retrieve?MagaraNo=1318&html=cave_detail_e.html&layout=web

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Creators: Entry created by Elżbieta (2017-01-22) , last updated by p. jeffries (2026-10-22), with possible contributions by others. CC BY-SA 4.0, metadata CC-0.
Persistent URI: https://vici.org/vici/34493
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Suggested citation: Elżbieta and Jeffries, P., İnkaya Cave. https://vici.org/vici/34493, accessed 2026-11-11.