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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 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.
Yazılıkaya, Eskişehir, also called Midas City, is a village with Phrygian ruins. Yazılıkaya; Yazılıkaya. Shown within Turkey. Location: ... History This was a ...
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 ...
MIDAS (operating system) (Microsoft Interrupt Driven Asynchronous System), a 1979 operating system; MIDAS Heritage a Monument Inventory Data Standard for recording historic sites; Missile Defense Alarm System (MiDAS), 1960–1966 American early-warning missile-launch detection system; Migraine Disability Assessment Test
A rock-cut tomb is a burial chamber that is cut into an existing, naturally occurring rock formation, so a type of rock-cut architecture.They are usually cut into a cliff or sloping rock face, but may go downward in fairly flat ground.
According to Tractatus de mulieribus (citing Xenophilos of Sardeis, who wrote the history of Lydia), Lyde was the wife and sister of Alyattes, the ancestor of Croesus. Lyde's son, Alyattes, when he inherited the kingdom from his father, committed the terrible crime of tearing the clothes of respectable people and spitting on many.