Arcosoliumlu Kaya Mezarı (Gercüş)
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Overview
About this site
Overview
Arcosoliumlu Kaya Mezarı (Gercüş) is a hypogeum in Gercüş, Turkey. It lies at 37.5631° N, 41.3828° E.
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Arcosoliumlu Kaya Mezarı (Gercüş)
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A rock-cut tomb is a burial chamber cut into a naturally occurring rock formation, usually into a cliff or sloping rock face, though it may also go downward in flat ground. It was a common burial form for the wealthy in ancient times in several parts of the world. A hypogeum, literally "underground", is a subterranean temple or tomb that often has niches for cremated remains or loculi for buried ones. The regional background, “Rock-cut tombs of Anatolia and Iran”, is given below.
Dating
No date has been published for this site.
Setting
No other recorded monument lies within 10 km. The nearest is Kaya Mezarları ve Arkeolojik Yerleşim Alanı (Midyat), 17.1 km to the south. In Gercüş, Turkey, 1 of the 1 recorded monuments are of this type.
The nearest recorded monuments are Kaya Mezarları ve Arkeolojik Yerleşim Alanı (Midyat) (17.1 km south, hypogeum); Sağır Kadın Harabeleri Kaya Mezarı (29.3 km east, hypogeum); Taşlı Tepe (29.9 km north, other / unclassified); Boncuklu Tarla (39.8 km east, other / unclassified).
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No heritage designation is recorded for the site.
Tradition and region
About this kind of monument
Rock-cut tombs of Anatolia and Iran
A rock-cut tomb is a burial chamber cut into a naturally occurring rock formation, usually into a cliff or sloping rock face, though it may also go downward in flat ground. It was a common burial form for the wealthy in ancient times in several parts of the world. A hypogeum, literally "underground", is a subterranean temple or tomb that often has niches for cremated remains or loculi for buried ones.
Important clusters are found in Iran and Turkey. At Naqsh-e Rostam, about 13 kilometres north-west of Persepolis in Fars province, the cliff face holds the tombs of four Achaemenid kings, notably Darius the Great and his son Xerxes, and a series of rock reliefs cut over more than a millennium from the Elamites and Achaemenids to the Sasanians. Other notable clusters are at Myra in Lycia, in south-west Turkey, at Petra in Jordan, where the Nabataeans cut tombs, and in ancient Israel.
The tombs of kings can be dated through the rulers they name, but an uninscribed rock-cut chamber in the countryside can only be assigned a broad range, since a cut chamber holds no material that can be dated by itself.
Folklore: the name Naqsh-e Rostam means "mural of Rostam", after the legendary hero of Iranian tradition, though the reliefs are the work of Elamite, Achaemenid and Sasanian kings.
When visiting, look at the façades and the position of the tombs high on the rock face.
Paraphrased from Wikipedia: Rock-cut tomb, Wikipedia: Hypogeum, Wikipedia: Naqsh-e Rustam · CC BY-SA 4.0
Where it stands
Turkey
The pin marks the monument itself — its exact point.
- Coordinates
- 37°33′47″ N, 41°22′58″ EFor a GPS or map app: 37.56305, 41.38282
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Nearby
The closest sites in the Atlas, by straight line.
- Hypogeum (rock-cut)Kaya Mezarları ve Arkeolojik Yerleşim Alanı (Midyat)
- Hypogeum (rock-cut)Sağır Kadın Harabeleri Kaya Mezarı
- MegalithTaşlı Tepe4000 BCE–600 CE
Boncuklu Tarla9050–8950 BCE- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Girhabeş Tumulus700–50 BCE
- Hypogeum (rock-cut)1 Nolu Kaya Mezarı (Kozluk)
- Hypogeum (rock-cut)2 Nolu Kaya Mezarı (Kozluk)
- Hypogeum (rock-cut)Arcosoliumlu Kaya Mezarı, Sason
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Around this place
The ten nearest sites, by compass
- Kaya Mezarları ve Arkeolojik Yerleşim Alanı (Midyat)17 km S
- Sağır Kadın Harabeleri Kaya Mezarı29 km E
- Taşlı Tepe30 km N
- Boncuklu Tarla40 km E
- Girhabeş Tumulus60 km NW
- 1 Nolu Kaya Mezarı (Kozluk)71 km N
- 2 Nolu Kaya Mezarı (Kozluk)71 km N
- Arcosoliumlu Kaya Mezarı, Sason84 km N
- Mavan Kaya Mezarı95 km W
- Mancel Kaya Mezarları99 km W
Credit
Text, licence and sources
Compiled from open records (Wikidata, CC0; OpenStreetMap, ODbL) and a regional background article based on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).
- Wikidata Q139422401CC0
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