Telmessos

by Günther Eichhorn
Ancient Telmessos has many stone sarcophagi. The town of Fethiye was build around them. Some of them stand in the middle of a road. On the rock cliff in one side of Fethiye is the Temple of Amyntas, an Ionic temple, cut out of the rock in 350 BCE.

Turkey 0352 A Lydian sarcophagus, standing in the middle of the road. (381k) Turkey 0353 Temple complex, carved out of the rock face. (735k) Turkey 0356 Close-up of one of the rock-cut temples. (522k)



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