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Object name:
Karakuş Tumulus

Address:
Turkey

Added by:
Elaine Giambra

Object description

The Karakuş Tumulus 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.

Karakuş Tumulus
Karakuş Tumulus

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