Mount Nemrut
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Mount Nemrut or Nemrud is a 2,150-metre-high 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
Mount Nemrut East Terrace
Some of the statues near the peak of Mount Nemrut
The Lion with the Stars
West Terrace: Head of King Antiochos I in snow at sunset.
Commagene
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Commagene was an ancient Greco-Iranian kingdom ruled by a Hellenized branch of the Orontids, a dynasty of Iranian origin, that had ruled over the Satrapy of Armenia. The kingdom was located in and aro
Mount Nemrut
…The UNESCO entry states: The mausoleum of Antiochus I (69–34 B.C.), who reigned over Commagene, a kingdom founded north of Syria and the Euphrates after the breakup of Alexander's empire, is one of the most ambitious constructions of the Hellenistic…
Monumental head of the goddess Commagene (Tyche-Bakht) from Mount Nemrut
Antiochus I of Commagene, shaking hands with Herakles.
Mithras-Helios, in Phrygian cap with solar rays, with Antiochus I of Commagene. (Mt Nemrut, 1st century BC)
Eagle-topped column from the royal burial mound at Karakuş