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Location

  • Türkiye, Aslantaş
  • geo:39.043015,30.518486
  • Location: correct and verified

Period or year

  • -7xx~ / -5xx

Classification

  • altar
  • Visible

Maltaş Monument

data access 77022

The Phrygian Maltaş Monument  is a temple facade with a triangular roof and a niche.

Sources:

  1. Yusuf Polat, The Phrygian Rock Cut Religious Monument, BAR International Series 1739, 2008
  2. Özkaya, Vecihi. “The Shaft Monuments and the ‘Taurobolium’ among the Phrygians.” Anatolian Studies 47 (1997): 89–103. https://doi.org/10.2307/3642901.
  3. Susanne Berndt-Ersöz,  “Phrygian Rock-Cut Cult Façades: A Study of the Function of the So-Called Shaft Monuments.” Anatolian Studies, vol. 48, [British Institute at Ankara, Cambridge University Press], 1998, pp. 87–112, https://doi.org/10.2307/3643049.

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Creators: Entry created by Elżbieta (2022-03-02) , with possible contributions by others. CC BY-SA 4.0, metadata CC-0.
Persistent URI: https://vici.org/vici/77022
Data downloads: KML
Suggested citation: , E. , Maltaş Monument. https://vici.org/vici/77022, accessed 2026-06-25.