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Tumuli at the Lydian
royal cemetry at Bin Tepe ('thousand mounds'), north of Sardes.
It was not uncommon in ancient Anatolia to bury a king in an artificial
hill (e.g., there are similar tumuli at Troy
and Gordium).
The hills on the right of this picture is named after king Gyges
(c.680-644), the founder of the Mermnad dynasty. It has been investigated
but the burial chamber was found empty. |
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The tumulus of Alyattes
(c.600-c.560), which has a diameter of 355 meter and is 69 meters high.
It was erected by his son Croesus
and could be identified because it is described by the Greek researcher
Herodotus
of Halicarnassus and the geographer Strabo
of Amasia. In Antiquity, these mounds were probably crowned by giant
phalloi. |
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Lake Gyges. |
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