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  • Karakuş Tumulus

  • Karakuş Tumulus

    Karakuş Tumulus is a funerary monument, an hierothesion, for Queen Isias and Princesses Antiochis and Aka I of Commagene, built by Mithridates II of Commagene in 30-20 BC. It is located near the modern village of Çukurtas Köyü in Adıyaman Province, Turkey.
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    Karakuş Tumulus
    by Bernard Gagnon, GFDL or CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
    Elevation: 902 m

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    Karakuş Tumulus

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    Tombs and Necropolises

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    Turkey

    Adıyaman

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    1st Century BC

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