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Monday, January 3, 2011

Tomb Entrances cont.

I liked those entrances so much I went back and looked more closely at the source book.  Here's another entrance, flanked by lions:
Apparently, one of those entrances was an imagined reconstruction based on sculpture fragments, the other two (including today's) I couldn't find online.  But the third is a Temple to Mita in Midas Şehri.  More info here.  Here's a current pic:
and one with a person for scale, it's 17 meters high:
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6 comments:

  1. DanielJanuary 3, 2011 at 2:44 PM

    The first one in the first post seems to be the one depicted here, http://www.kamit.jp/07_lycia/xbaksh.htm - another Phrygian tomb located at Bakshish.

    You might also like these from Caria, http://www.kamit.jp/07_lycia/xkaunos.htm and http://www.fethiyeyachting.com/jpg_files/fethiye_ruins.jpg

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  2. TelecanterJanuary 3, 2011 at 4:23 PM

    Awe. some, Thanks.

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  3. UnknownJanuary 3, 2011 at 6:25 PM

    Whoah, fantastic!

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  4. Boric GlanduumJanuary 4, 2011 at 1:14 PM

    The first one in this post (with the lions) appears to be a Phyrgian tomb at Arslan Tash in Afyonkarahisar. (see http://www.varchive.org/dag/lionga.htm) In fact, it appears from the pictures on the side of this website (http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.geziciyak.com%2Ffrigyab.html) that both of these tombs in today's post may be in the same area.

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  5. TelecanterJanuary 5, 2011 at 3:41 PM

    Cool, thanks for the info!

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  6. Boric GlanduumJanuary 16, 2011 at 5:15 PM

    I just realized that the last site address in my last post did not work. Here it is in the original Turkish (?)
    http://www.geziciyak.com/frigyasb.html

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