Yığma Tepe Tumulus - Vici.org

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Yığmatepe Tumulus

Surroundings:

Pergamon, Maltepe

Roman Bridge

Roman Bridge

Roman Bridge

Pergamon bridge

Redhall - Red Basilica in Pergamon

Redhall - Red Basilica in Pergamon

The Red Basilica, monumental ruined temple thought to have been used for the worship of the Egyptian gods and probably built in the orders of Hadrian

Redhall - Red Basilica

Redhall - Red Basilica in Pergamon

Redhall - Red Basilica in Pergamon

Red Basilica

Redhall - Red Basilica in Pergamon

Redhall - Red Basilica in Pergamon

Round structure

Round structure

Round structure

Pergamon - view from the city

Ancient street, Pergamon

Via Tecta

Pergamon

Landscape - view from Pergamon to the West

Pergamon - view from the library

Pergamon - ruins of the city

Courtyard

Courtyard

Courtyard

Theatre entrance remains

Roman Bridge

Tunnel

Grave or burial field

Location:

Türkiye, Bergama
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Exact location

Period or year:

-1xx / unknown

Class:

Grave or burial field
visible

Identifiers:

vici:place=42048

Annotations

Yığma Tepe Tumulus is thougt to be a burial of an Attalid king.The first excavations in the tumulus were initiated in 1878 by austrian archaeologist Alexander Conze.

See:

http://arkeofili.com/pergamondaki-en-buyuk-tumulusun-yapim-yontemleri-arastirildi/
Olivier Henry, Ute Kelp, Tumulus as Sema: Space, Politics, Culture and Religion in the First Millennium BC, Walter de Gruyter 2016, pp. 1993, 2007

Relevant museums

Pergamon Museum in Berlin

Houses original-sized, reconstructed monumental buildings such as the Market Gate of Miletus.

Nearby

Pergamon, Tumulus II

Tumulus II in Pergamon.

Pergamon, Tumulus III

Tumulus III in Pergamon.

Pergamon, Maltepe

Tumulus Mal Tepe in Pergamon.