Maltaş
Coordinates: 39 ° 2 ′ 35 ″ N , 30 ° 31 ′ 6 ″ E
The Phrygian cult facade Maltaş (also Mal Taş ) from the eighth century BC is located in the İhsaniye district of the central Turkish province of Afyonkarahisar , about 40 km north of the provincial capital Afyon .
It is comparable to the monument called Midas Tomb in Midas City and the free-standing Arslankaya . These facades were up to 17 meters high, were closed at the top by a gable and had a central niche with a cult image of the Cybele at the bottom . The 9 m wide facade of Maltaş is covered by the ground up to the gable, about 3.5 to 4 m are still visible. The front and the gable field are framed by a diamond band, a geometric pattern can be seen on the facade. An inscription in Phrygian script can be seen on the left . During excavations in the 1930s, a niche and other inscriptions came to light.
A few hundred meters away are the two rock chamber tombs Aslantaş and Yilantaş .
Sunken facade
Phrygian inscription
literature
- Emilie Haspels : The Highlands of Phrygia. Sites and monuments. Princeton University Press, Princeton 1971, ISBN 0-691-03863-5 , pp. 85-96. 100-101. 103-104. 293-294.
- Elke and Hans-Dieter Kaspar: Phrygien - a legendary kingdom in Anatolia , Hausen 1990, ISBN 3-925696-07-5
- Susanne Berndt-Ersöz: Phrygian rock-cut shrines. Structure, function, and cult practice. Brill, Leiden 2006, ISBN 978-90-04-15242-7 , pp. 227-228 No. 24.
- Wolfgang Dorn: Turkey Central Anatolia: Between Phrygia, Ankara and Cappadocia. DuMont, Cologne 2006, ISBN 9783770166169 , p. 175.