Aslantaş and Yılantaş
Coordinates: 39 ° 2 ′ 54 ″ N , 30 ° 31 ′ 24 ″ E
Aslantaş (also Arslantaş, Turkish lion's stone ) and Yılantaş ( snake stone ) are two Phrygian rock chamber tombs in the Phrygian valley , about 40 kilometers north of Afyon in the İhsaniye district of the central Turkish province of Afyonkarahisar .
Aslantaş was discovered in 1882 by the Scottish archaeologist William Mitchell Ramsay . It is carved into a ten meter high boulder. Halfway up is the burial chamber, guarded on both sides by two standing lion figures. At the level of the chamber there are two other, smaller, reclining lion figures, which are difficult to see because of their poor state of preservation. The Turkish archaeologist Ekrem Akurgal recognizes Ionic influences in them and therefore dates the monument to the 6th century BC. Chr.
A few hundred meters away is Yılantaş, a collapsed specimen of the same kind. The name comes from the fact that the local farmers thought the fallen lions' paws were representations of snakes.
Not far away is the Phrygian cult facade Maltaş
Aslantaş
Yılantaş
literature
- Marianne Mehling (Hrsg.): Knaur's cultural guide in color Turkey . Droemer-Knaur, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-426-26293-2 , p. 400.
- Michael Bussmann / Gabriele Tröger: Turkey . Michael Müller Verlag 2004, ISBN 3-89953-125-6 .
- Elke and Hans-Dieter Kaspar: Phrygia - a legendary kingdom in Anatolia. Hausen 1990, ISBN 3-925696-07-5 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ekrem Akurgal: The Art of Anatolia from Homer to Alexander. Walter de Gruyter, 1961, ISBN 9783110013511 , p. 86.