PHOKAIA’DAKİ TAŞ KULE ANIT MEZARININ ÜST YAPISINA AİT GÖZLEMLER

Authors : Suat ATEŞLİLER

Pages : 111-125

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Publication Date : 2004-05-01

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :The so-called Taş Kule is a freestanding unique and monumental tomb locatednear Phokaia. The tomb was cut from the bedrock. It was studied and published byN. Cahill in 1988. The tomb was built in two stories, the lower storey is rectangular but the upper storey shows a pyramidal tomb model apart from the lower storey.The upper storey was set marginally at the north side of the tomb and has a fourstepped podium; lowest three steps on the north side are missing, only fourth stepsurrounds the cubic part. The steps show the main direction which has a false door.The false door is not an isolated motif, it is functioning with the pyramidal tombmodel, described on the upper storey.
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