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Karakuş

Adıyaman, Kâhta · Archaeological site

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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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