Karakuş Tumulus
The Karakuş Tumulus is a funerary monument—a hierothesion—for Queen Isias and Princesses Antiochis and Aka I of Commagene, built by Mithridates II of Commagene in 30–20 BCE, near the modern village of Çukurtaş in Kâhta District, Adıyaman Province, Turkey.
- Archaeological site
- Description: funerary monument
- Also known as“Karakuş”“Karakush”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Taşlıca and Çukurtaş.
Karakuş Tumulus
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Latitude
37.86941° or 37° 52′ 10″ north
Longitude
38.58798° or 38° 35′ 17″ east
Open location code
8G9WVH9Q+Q5
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OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_site
OpenStreetMap feature
man_made=mound
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In Other Languages
From Azerbaijani to Uzbek—“Karakuş Tumulus” goes by many names.
- Azerbaijani: “Karakuş Tümülüsü”
- Czech: “Karakus Tumulus”
- Czech: “Karakuş Tumulus”
- Czech: “Karakuş Tümülüsü”
- Dutch: “Tumulus van Karakus”
- Dutch: “Tumulus van Karakuş”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كاراكوس”
- French: “tumulus de Karakuş”
- French: “Tumulus de Karakuş”
- Georgian: “ქარაქუშის ტუმულუსი”
- German: “Karakuş”
- Greek: “Καρακούς”
- Irish: “Karakuş”
- Polish: “Karakuş”
- Serbian: “Каракушки тумул”
- Turkish: “Kadınlar Mezarlığı”
- Turkish: “Karakuş Höyüğü”
- Turkish: “Karakuş Tepesi”
- Turkish: “Karakuş Tümülüsü”
- Turkish: “Karakuş”
- Turkish: “Kraliçeler Mezarlığı”
- Turkish: “Tokalaşma Steli”
- Uzbek: “Karakuş Tumulus”
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