Arslankaya
Coordinates: 39 ° 6 ′ 19.8 ″ N , 30 ° 25 ′ 46.5 ″ E
Arslankaya (Turkish "Lion's Arch ", also Aslankaya ) is a Phrygian monument near the village of Döğer in the İhsaniye district of the Turkish province of Afyonkarahisar , about 40 kilometers north of Afyon in central Turkey.
The front of the free-standing tufa monolith is up to 10 m high from a 7th or 6th century BC. Taken Chr resulting cult facade. Gable, similar to the falsely as Midas-designated grave monument in Midas city . The facade is covered with a geometric relief pattern, in the center there is a niche with a cult image of Cybele , flanked by two lions. The insides of the niche represent two open door leaves, giving the impression of looking into a building. There are two sphinx reliefs in the gable. On the sides you can see two standing lions that stretch up to gable height.
The first description of the monument was provided by William Mitchell Ramsay in the 1880s.
Arslankaya
Front
Side view
niche
literature
- Wolfgang Dorn: Turkey Central Anatolia: Between Phrygia, Ankara and Cappadocia. DuMont 2006, ISBN 9783770166169
- Lynn E. Roller: In search of god the mother: the cult of Anatolian Cybele University of California Press, 1999 ISBN 9780520210240
- Elke and Hans-Dieter Kaspar: "Phrygia - a legendary kingdom in Anatolia", Hausen 1990, ISBN 3-925696-07-5
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mark Henderson Munn: The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the tyranny of Asia. University of California Press, 2006, p. 76, ISBN 9780520243491
- ^ A b László Gerevich: Studia Archaeologica . Brill Archive, p. 40 at GoogleBooks