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Location:

  • Türkiye, Üçgöz
  • geo:37.626587,37.983444
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Period or year:

  • 1xx / unknown

Class:

  • Grave or burial field
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=68325

Annotations

This tumulus  - THE GREAT TUMUL OF SOFRAZ  is located southeast of the Sofraz (Üçgöz) Village of the Besni District  on the edge of Sofraz Stream. The upper part of the burial place is an earth-filled hill. The tomb structure of the tumulus, which has an estimated height of 15 meters, consists of 3 parts: the dromos, the passage corridor and the burial chamber. The vaulted entrance leads to the burial chamber with two sarcophagi.

See:

  1. Michael Blömer, Engelbert Winter: Commagene, The Land of Gods Between the Taurus and the Euphrates, Homer Kitabevi, Istanbul 2011, pp. 168–172.
  2. https://www.gezi-yorum.net/etiket/eski-besni/
  3. SOFRAZ TÜMÜLÜSÜ-https://www.tarihimekanlar.net/sofraz-tumulusu

Nearby

Sofraz Small Tumulus (1 km)

Roman Period Tomb. Tumulus B of Sofraz. SOFRAZ KÜÇÜK TÜMÜLÜSÜ.

Sofraz Köy Stele (1 km)

Antiochus I and Apollo Stele. Discovered at Üçgöz formely Sofraz village.

Singa (2 km)

OmnesViae import TPPlace2574


This object was added by Ludwinski on 2020-11-14. Last update by Elżbieta on 2022-02-14. Persistent URI: http://vici.org/vici/68325 . Download as RDF/XML, GeoJSON, KML.
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