Mount Nemrut

Mount Nemrut 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. The mountain lies 40 km north of Kahta, near Adıyaman. The site was built by King Antiochus I of Commagene as a tomb-sanctuary, and it features a large tumulus, or burial mound, surrounded by statues of Greek and Persian gods. The statues have Greek-style faces, but Persian clothing and hair-styling. The site also preserves stone slabs with bas-relief figures that are thought to have formed a large frieze. These slabs depict Antiochus' Greek and Persian ancestors. The arrangement of such statues is known by the term hierothesion