Antiquity
Hittite, Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine traces.
Parent category: History
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PrehistoryBronze Age Beyşehir basinSettlement surveys and Hittite monuments show several distinct Bronze Age histories around the lake.AntiquityEflatunpınarEflatunpınar is a Late Bronze Age Hittite spring sanctuary near Beyşehir, where relief sculpture and water form one architectural setting.AntiquityFasıllar monumentThe Fasıllar monument is a large Hittite-period relief cut from a single stone near Fasıllar village.AntiquityThe Beyşehir basin in antiquityAncient Beyşehir was a group of communities and routes around the lake, not a single city identical with the modern town.AntiquityPappa and YunuslarYunuslar in the wider Beyşehir region is associated in scholarship with the ancient settlement of Pappa.AntiquityHerakles sarcophagus of YunuslarA Roman sarcophagus found at Yunuslar bears high-relief scenes of the labours of Herakles.AntiquityEarly archaeological study of the Beyşehir regionTravel, inscription recording and archaeological surveys gradually changed how the region’s ancient history was studied.AntiquityThe Hittite horizon of BeyşehirEflatunpınar and Fasıllar place the Beyşehir basin within the monumental landscape of the Late Bronze Age Hittite world.AntiquityAtlıkaya relief and Lukyanus inscriptionAtlıkaya near Fasıllar preserves a Roman-period horse relief and a Greek memorial inscription for Lukyanus.