Location: Kahta
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Kâhta (Kurdish: Kolîk, Syriac: ܓܟܬܝ/ Gakhti [kh = h], Ottoman Turkish: کولک / Kölük) is a large district of Adıyaman Province of Turkey. Population 63,216 (as of 2010).
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1. Hz. Uzeyir Peygamber Turbesi
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2. Arsemia Antik Kenti
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4.5 based on 47 reviews
Reviewed By apricot44 - Turkey, null
Arsemia ancient city hierothesion and capital of commagene The ancient city built within the summer capital founded by Antiochus I, the magnificent king of the Commagene kingdom, by his ancestor arsames. In antiochus built on his father's holy mausoleum and in turkey, which has the largest Greek inscriptions . the holy river for I Mithrades priest and the ancient city which is an amazing natural landscape. It is built on the sacred river, the Kahta(Nymph) river, has an incredible view of nature. It is built on a high hill against enemy attack. Antiochus defines the city of arsemeia as a twin city. He established a hierothesion (Ancient Greek ἱεροθέσιον 'holy seat'), in Commagene, is a monument or royal mausoleum, for his father I.Mithirades. It is one of the three hierothesions found in the kingdom of kommagene. (Mount Nemrut hierothesion, karakus tumulus hierothesion). There are steles in this ancient city with 3 handshake scenes of Antiochus. The antiochus has a handshake stele with apollon (mithras-hermes), I mithirades and herakles (artagnes). This ancient city, which has the longest Greek inscription in Anatolia, is located in a well 158 meters deep. In the early days, the well used for the fresh water source was thought to be an escape route found in all palaces and castles.The small holes and niches on the base and walls of the well show that this place is actually a sacred graveyard. now I leave you with the words of the great king Antiochus I in arsemia. ‘the great king antiochus, son of the king mithiridas and queen laodike, the friend of helen and the romans, and arsemia on the shore of nympios also left an unshakable law to his paternal ancestors (pers, armenian) and the immortal messenger, behind which he entrusted untouchable monuments for his own cult.’
3. Karakus Tumulusu
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4.0 based on 62 reviews
Reviewed By apricot44 - Turkey, null
The tumulus belonging to the royal queen and princesses of the kingdom of Commagene, built by Mithridates II, son of the magnificent king of Commagene I antiochos. 1 is the sacred burial site of Antiochis, the wife of the antiochus, isias daughters Antiochis, laodike and Antiochis daughter aka (hierothesion). the Karakuş Tumulus is an artificial mound, 35 meters high, located on the top of a natural hill. Its Turkish name means "Black Bird", and its origin is explained by the column standing at the tumulus, the top of which is decorated with the sculpture of an eagle. It welcomes visitors to the tumulus, arriving there by the path from the south. hierothesion that appears in the above inscription. It comes from ancient Greek and literally means a "sacred seat". In the Kingdom of Commagene, this term was used to describe royal mausoleums. In particular, it was reserved for three burial sites: the hierothesion of King Antiochus I on Mount Nemrut, the hierothesion in Arsameia, erected by Antiochus I to his father, King Mithridates I Kallinikos, and the Karakuş Tumulus hierothesion. This last mausoleum was built by King Mithridates II, the son of Antiochus, for the women of his family, as we could read in the inscription quoted above. King Mithridates II ruled in the years 38 - 20 BCE and therefore the creation of Karakuş Tumulus is dated to this period. The figure of the ruler is visible on a relief placed on the column standing on the north-western side of the mound. This relief depicts Mithridates II shaking hands with his sister Laodice. However, some researchers, including T.A. Sinclair, claim that the person accompanying Laodice on the relief is not the Mithridates, but Isias - the mother of Mithridates and Laodice. The presence of Laodice on a relief placed on Karakuş Tumulus indicates that she was also buried in this family tomb. Laodice was married to the King of the Parthians, Orodes II, becoming the Queen of the Parthian Empire. It was during the reign of Orodes II that the Roman army suffered a devastating defeat at the Battle of Carrhae - that is, the present Harran - in 53 BC. As a result of this defeat, the Roman commander Marcus Licinius Crassus, a member of the first triumvirate and most probably the wealthiest Roman of that time, lost his life. Roman reports say that the Parthians poured molten gold into his mouth as a symbol of his thirst for wealth. His head was sent to the Great King Orodes II and was allegedly used as a prop on the stage during the performance of Euripides' Greek tragedy The Bacchae. Originally, many more columns surrounded the mound. They stood in three rows of three columns each, on the eastern, southern, and north-eastern side on the tumulus. The central column of each group supported the relief block, and the two outer columns - the sculptures of animals - the deer on the eastern side, the eagle on the southern side, and the lion - on the northwestern side. However, they were demolished and used to build the nearby bridge of Septimius Severus, now known as Cendere Köprüsü, at the end of the 2nd century CE.
