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Nemrut Dağı

Mount Nemrut or Nemrud is a 2,134-metre-high mountain in southeastern Turkey, notable for the summit where a number of large statues are erected around what is assumed to be a royal tomb from the 1st century BC.

Mithraic monuments of Nemrut Dağı

People attested in Nemrut Dağı

Antiochus I

Antiochus I
(86 – 31 BCE)

Inscriptions from Nemrut Dağı

Lion relief from Nemrut Dağı

Πυρόεις Ηρακλέους, στίλβων Απόλλωνος, Φαέθων Δίος.
Pyroeis Heracleos, the flaming one of Herakles: Mars; Stilboon Apollonos, the shining one of Apollo: Mercury; Phaeton Dios, the radiating one of Zeus: Jupiter.
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