Kaisaran Rock Relief
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Birgit Christiansen
Creators: Birgit Christiansen
Contributors:
Thomas Seidler, Jeffrey Becker, Carolin Johansson, Jamie Novotny, Tom Elliott, Rune Rattenborg
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Last modified
May 25, 2023 02:05 PM
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History
Kaisaran (Kaissaran, Kayseran Ekece) is a modern mountain village in the mountains east of the Keşiş Gölü ("Priest Lake"), an artificial lake created by Rusa, son of Erimena (probably 8th century BCE). At an elevation of 2,780 m above the village (more than an hour’s difficult ascent) a rock inscription of probably the same ruler was found in the late 19th century. Another rock inscription and a stela of Rusa, son of Erimena have been found in other places in the vicinity of the lake. These are the rock inscriptions situated in Erek Dağ (CTU I A 14-3) and the so-called Keşiş Göl stela (CTU I A 14-1) whose upper part has been found at Gövelek.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/250733262
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- Representative Locations:
- Less than certain: CIGS location of Kaisaran (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- Kaisaran (Turkish, modern)
- Kaisaran Rock Relief located near Keşiş Gölü (900 BC - 600 BC)
- Kaisaran Rock Relief part of (physical/topographic) Urartu (900 BC - 600 BC)
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findspot, place of finding, archaeological site, monument
Pleiades
Birgit Christiansen , Thomas Seidler, Jeffrey Becker, Carolin Johansson, Jamie Novotny, Tom Elliott, and Rune Rattenborg, 'Kaisaran Rock Relief: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/250733262> [accessed: 26 April 2024]
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