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The Midas Monument. The most prominent feature of the site is the Midas Monument, a high rock-cut facade in the cliff face of the citadel. [5] The relief takes the form of a pedimented temple front with acroteria, and an abstract geometric design which appears to imitate the terra cotta facings of buildings.
The Midas Monument, a Phrygian rock-cut tomb dedicated to Midas (700 BC).. There are many, and often contradictory, legends about the most ancient King Midas. In one, Midas was king of Pessinus, a city of Phrygia, who as a child was adopted by King Gordias and Cybele, the goddess whose consort he was, and who (by some accounts) was the goddess-mother of Midas himself. [5]
The first edition of the standard, MIDAS – A Manual and Data Standard for Monument Inventories, was published by the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England [4] (RCHME) in 1998. [5] The organisation merged with English Heritage in 1999 and the updated version, MIDAS Heritage , was published in 2007 in collaboration with other ...
The Midas Monument, a Phrygian rock-cut tomb dedicated to Midas (700 BCE).. Ancient monuments of rock-cut architecture are widespread in several regions of world. A small number of Neolithic tombs in Europe, such as the c. 3,000 B.C. Dwarfie Stane on the Orkney island of Hoy, were cut directly from the rock, rather than constructed from stone blocks.
The 10-domed old bazaar forming the center hall of the museum houses reliefs and statues from Neo-Hittite period. The theme of war is emphasized in the reliefs with soldiers and chariots. Also, rock-cut reliefs portraying the Hittite rulers, the gods of the Hittite pantheon, and statues of powerful animals such as lions and bulls are represented.
Former President Barack Obama designated the factory and surrounding area a national monument in 2015. Years in the making, the visitor center and state historic site grounds at the Pullman ...
Yazılıkaya, Eskişehir, also called Midas City, is a village with Phrygian ruins. Yazılıkaya; Yazılıkaya. Shown within Turkey. Location: ... History This was a ...
The Golden Age of King Midas/Kral Midas’ın Altın Çağı, catalogue of the Penn Museum exhibition. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum. Sheftel, Phoebe A. (2023). The bone and ivory objects from Gordion. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. ISBN 9781949057171. Simpson, Elizabeth. 2010.