The Bahşayiş Facade localy known as Bahşiş Çeşmesi is located on the rocky slope on the west bank of Kocadere stream, 1 km southwest of Gökbahçe village prev. Bahsayiş Village. It was first discovered by John Robert Steuart in 1837. Behind the Facade is a 4.5 m deep shaft. Bahşayiş Monuments is estimated to date to the Late Phrygian period (550-330 BC).
Sources:
- Catherine M Draycott, 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.
- https://kulturenvanteri.com/yer/bahseyis-aniti/
- Yusuf Polat, The Phrygian Rock Cut Religious Monument, BAR International Series 1739, 2008
- idem:The Phrygian Rock Cut Religious Monuments, the Destructions of the Monuments and their Restoration Processes (425-430), Symposium on Mediterrranean Archaeology (SOMA 2005), 2008, pp. 425-430