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Mount Nemrut or Nemrud (Turkish: Nemrut Dağı; Kurdish: Çiyayê Nemrûdê,Sorani Kurdish: چیای نەمروت; Armenian: Նեմրութ լեռ; Greek: Όρος Νεμρούτ) is a 2,134-metre-high (7,001 ft) mountain in southeastern Turkey, notable for the summit where a number of large statues are erected around what is assumed to be a royal tomb from the 1st century BC.
Bin Tepe (and other Lydian mounds of the Aegean inland), Phrygian mounds in Gordium (Central Anatolia), and the famous Commagene tumulus on Mount Nemrut (Southeastern Anatolia). This is the most important of the enumerated sites with the number of specimens it has and with the dimensions of certain among them. It is in the Aegean inland of Turkey.
Antiochus I Theos Dikaios Epiphanes Philorhomaios Philhellen (Ancient Greek: Ἀντίοχος ὁ Θεὸς Δίκαιος Ἐπιφανὴς Φιλορωμαῖος Φιλέλλην, meaning "Antiochos, the just, eminent god, friend of Romans and friend of Greeks", c. 86 BC – 31 BC, ruled 70 BC – 31 BC) was king of the Greco-Iranian kingdom of Commagene and the most famous king of that ...
One of the kingdom's most lasting visible remains is the archaeological site on Mount Nemrut, a sanctuary dedicated by King Antiochus Theos to a number of syncretistic Graeco-Iranian deities as well as to himself and the deified land of Commagene. [13] It is now a World Heritage Site. [14]
Maykop – Proto-Indo-Europeans; Pazyryk ... Library of Celsus in Ephesus Mount Güllük-Termessos National Park in Antalya Statues of Mount Nemrut in Eastern Turkey ...
Mount Nemrut National Park: Afyon: 1 Commander-in-Chief National Historic Park: Ağrı: 1 Mount Ararat National Park: Aydın: 1 Dilek Peninsula-Büyük Menderes Delta National Park: Bartın: 1 Küre Mountains National Park: Bayburt: 1 Mount Kop Defensive National Historic Park: Bolu: 2 Yedigöller National Park, Lake Abant National Park: Bursa ...
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Nemrut, 1st century BCE) 4th-century relief of the investiture of the Sasanian king Ardashir II. Mithra stands on a Lotus Flower on the left holding a Barsom. [71] According to the archaeologist Maarten Vermaseren, evidence from Commagene from the 1st century BCE demonstrates the "reverence paid to Mithras" but does not refer to "the mysteries".