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Kapilikaya Rock Tomb

Background

The Kapilikaya Rock Tomb is located in Kırkdilim, 27 km north of Çorum, Turkey, on a rocky, steep and rough land formed by rift valleys cracked by river, on the north- west corner of a rock which extends toward north.It is a rock tomb of the Hellenistic period, dating back to the 2nd century B.C. The inscprition "IKEZIOS" stands on the door of the tomb' s room. The room of the tomb is in square shape and there are deads' secchis carved as niche on the right and left sides of the entrance.

Hellenistic Greece

• Library of Pergamon
• Colossus of Rhodes
• Ancient Theatre of Ohrid
• Tomb of Alexander the Great
• Tomb of Philip II
• Temple of Artemis at Ephesus
• Pergamon Altar
• Philippeion
• Sanctuary of the Great Gods
• Ploutonion at Hierapolis
• Filippeios Krini

Ptolemaic Structures

• Pharos Lighthouse at Alexandria
• Cleopatra's Palace at Alexandria
• Library of Alexandria
• Serapeum
• Caesareum of Alexandria
• Tomb of Antony and Cleopatra

Seleucid Structures

• Belevi Mausoleum
• Acra
• Pyramid of Hermel

Indo-Greek Structures

• >Heliodorus Pillar

Babylonian Structures

• Hanging Gardens of Babylon
• Esaggila
• Etemenanki
• Ishtar Gate
• Walls of Babylon

Other

• Gates of Alexander
• Kapilikaya Rock Tomb
• Birtha
• Tombs of the Kings of Pontus
• Monument of Prusias II
• Mausoleum of Halicarnassus

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