<< Our Photo Pages >> Nemrut Dag - Artificial Mound in Turkey
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Multi-periodSite Name: Nemrut Dag Alternative Name: Nemrut DağıCountry: Turkey
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Type: Artificial Mound
Nearest Town: Adiyaman Nearest Village: Kahta
Latitude: 37.980597N Longitude: 38.741085E
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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ModernExplorers visited on 11th Jun 2012 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 5 Access: 3 A very surreal site with large rock heads, bodies and a perimeter wall at the top of Nemrut mountain.
Jansold visited on 23rd Sep 2011 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 5 Access: 2
PAB h_fenton davidmorgan have visited here
Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 2.5 Ambience: 5 Access: 2.5
Funerary sanctuary and burial mound built by King Antiochus I in 62 BCE.
Syncretic Greek and Persian gods.
Text by Kustur:
I visited Mount Nemrut in June 2022. The tomb of Antiochus, situated east of the Taurus mountains in Eastern Turkey, was created in the first century BC. Antiochus ruled the kingdom of Commagene and around 62 BC he built a 55 metre high tumulus, as his tomb, using 50,000 tons of stones on the mountain top. On the eastern & western flanks of this tomb he created identical temple platforms flanked by a number of huge statues, each around 9-metres high, of two lions, two eagles, and various Gods which included himself. The heads of the statues now lie on the ground as the result of earth tremors common in the region. It’s a spectacular site, especially at sunrise & sunset, perched nearly 2,200 meters above sea level.
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