Citation
Page reference: Christopher Ratté and Peter D. De Staebler (eds.). Aphrodisias V. The Aphrodisias Regional Survey (Verlag Philipp von Zabern: Darmstadt/Mainz, 2012), 54, 55 - Book catalogue no.: Tumuli cat. 09. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/93115>
Description
Local Name: Ağaç Arası Tepesi, Yeniköy area
Local Informant: Sükrü Gırgın
Local Information: Approximately 300 m west of the Yeniköy citadel. Looted 17 years ago. It was accessible until three years ago, now closed, perhaps by the shepherds to protect their animals from falling into it.
Latitude: 37.44.52.80
Longitude: 28.48.00.36
Elevation: 1201m
Dimensions: Diam of mound: 7.30 m ** Chamber: W: 2.6 m; L: 2.2 m
Description: A single course of large lumps of quartz is all that remains of the crepis wall of this tumulus. The crepis is preserved for just over half its circumference on the uphill side; the downhill side is completely lost. The mound to which the crepis belonged is also gone, partly eroded by wind and rain, partly dug away by tomb robbers who have revealed what appears to be a tomb chamber in the center of the mound, hollowed out of the native schist. As preserved, the chamber has the appearance of an open pit, and it is unclear whether its ceiling has collapsed or been punched through by the tomb robbers. Its orientation is also unclear—no doorway or dromos is visible, and the bottom of the chamber is filled with earth and debris. As preserved, the vertical distance from the highest point on the crepis to lowest point in the chamber is 3.5 m.