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Surroundings:

Fragment of sculpture depicting the head of a leopard from Ayanlar Höyük

Location:

  • Türkiye, Büyük Alanlı
  • geo:37.207798,38.617287
  • Location ± 25-100 m.

Period or year:

  • 400~ / unknown

Class:

  • Temple or sanctuary
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=69165

Annotations

At the Village of Büyük Keşişlik (Büyük Alanlı), in the NW of Urfa are the ruins of a church and many rock tombs with Syriac inscriptions.

Sources:

  1. Henri Pognon, Inscriptions sémitiques de la Syrie, de la Mésopotamie et de la région de Mossoul, Paris, J. Gabalda, 1907,  pp. 101–102, Pl. XXV, XXVI
  2. Bahattin Çelik,Arkeolojide Urfa: Arkeolojik araştırmalar ışığında Urfa, Şanlıurfa Valiliği, 2008,

Nearby

Milestone (4 km)

Milestone on the road from Zeugma.

Ayanlar Höyük (Gre Hut) (5 km)

Pre-pottery Neolithic site.

Yoğunburç (7 km)

Late Roman Fort


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