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Yapildak TumulusAlaçan Rock IdolGerdek Rock Tomb, TurkeyBahşayiş FacadeAreyastis Monument  - Phrygian facade. 1889Areyastis Monument .  InscriptionsMidas MonumentMidas MonumentSteps down a cistern, Midas CitySteps up a cistern, Midas CityMidas Şehri, AltarAcropolis of Midas Şehri, Altar. Afternoon

Location:

  • Türkiye, Kümbet
  • geo:39.22435,30.615107
  • Location ± 100-500 m.

Period or year:

  • -550~ / unknown

Class:

  • Relief, votiv stone or altar
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=77051

Annotations

Berberini Façade is a small Phrygian façade located 1.5 km northeast of the Kümbet Village. It was discovered by E. Brendenburg on 1901.

1.35 above the ground it facing east and is 2.10 m high and 1.20 m wide.

The relief of Mother Goddess in the middle of the niche was destroyed during the Byzantine Period, however, traces of high polo of the goddes are still  visible. The written dextroverse Paleo-Phrygian inscription is engraved above the pediment of the façade.

It is dated to the mid-6th century BC.

See:

  1. http://tayproject.org/TAYages.fm$Retrieve?CagNo=10528&html=ages_detail_t.html&layout=web
  2. Claude Brixhe - Michel Lejeune, Corpus des inscriptions paléo-phrygiennes, Paris 1984.

Nearby

Kümbet Asar Kale

Phrygian fortress.

Kümbet, Deliklikaya I

Phrygiaan tomb.

Ballık Kale, Kümbet (2 km)

Phrygian small fortress. Wachtower?


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