Karakuş
Adıyaman, Kâhta · Archaeological site
Photo: Bernard Gagnon · CC BY-SA 3.0
Catalogue label
- Type
- Archaeology
- Kind
- Archaeological site
- Province / district
- Adıyaman / Kâhta
- Elevation
- 904 m
- Wikidata
- Q1728921
About
The Karakuş Tumulus (also Karakush) is a funerary monument—a hierothesion—for Queen Isias and Princesses Antiochis and Aka I of Commagene, built by Mithridates II of Commagene in 30–20 BCE, near the modern village of Çukurtaş in Kâhta District, Adıyaman Province, Turkey.
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Location
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