Monumentum
Nemrut Dağı
Mount Nemrut or Nemrud is one of the highest peaks in the eastern Taurus Mountains, southeastern Turkey. On its summit large statues stand around what is supposed to be a royal tomb from the 1st century BC.
PublishedThe New Mithraeum
9 Jun 2009
Updated on 12 Mar 2022
View of Nemrut Dag
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View of Nemrut Dag
Klaus-Peter Simon
Antiochus I Theos and Apollo-Mithras-Helios-Hermes from Nemrut Dağı.
Herman Brijder
Antiochus I shakes hands with Mithras.
Carl Humann
Wikimedia Commons
Adrian Farwell
Lateral view of Mithras-Helios-Sol head Mount Nemrut
exsimile
West Terrace on Mount Nemrut, the goddess of Commagene still has her head on the shoulders - from Humann, Carl i Puchstein, Otto
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Lion relief from Nemrud Dag
CIMRM
Lion relief from Nemrud Dag with constellation
International Nemrud Foundation
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King Antiochus I of Commagene (69-34 B.C.) had a sepulchral monument erected on the terrace of Nemrud-Dagh during his life. On the east part of the terrace the king had five colossal statues of about 8 m high erected between a lion and an eagle. The gods are represented in a sitting posture on a throne and are: Apollo-Mithras […]; Tyche-Commagene; Zeus-Ahura-Mazda; Antiochus himself and finally Ares-Artagnes.
On the backs of the five thrones an inscription has been engraved (No. 32).
On the backs of the five thrones an inscription has been engraved (No. 32).