Citation
Christopher Ratté and Peter D. De Staebler (eds.). Aphrodisias V. The Aphrodisias Regional Survey (Verlag Philipp von Zabern: Darmstadt/Mainz, 2012). <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/92552>
Description
Local Name: Yukarı Görle Köyü
Local Informant: Osman Alaca
Local Information: Mayor said on plateau above cliffs into which all chamber tombs cut was a church of black stone
Latitude: 37.32.55.295
Longitude: 28.38.16.926
Elevation: 615
Description: The modern village of Yukarı Görle is built atop an ancient settlement. Various large worked marble and limestone architectural blocks, many of which may originate from the now disassembled theater -- the bowl shape of the cavea is still visible in an olive grove -- are reused throughout the village [D2006.0172, D2006.0174-7], including, a block with anathyrosis on both sides, the bottom and back more roughly worked, and clamp cuttings for joints (H: 0.27m, W: 1.01m, D: 0.43m); a fragment of a Corinthian capital [D2006.0171]; an inscribed block [D2006.0178-80]; and columns and piers [D2006.0181-82]. Blocks An extensive Hellenistic or Early Roman necropolis peppers the base of the cliffs north of the village; one of the tombs to the northeast was frescoed in the Middle Byzantine period (B039). Two blocks each carved with a Latin cross are built into the foundations of a village house (F085).