Helenismo e iranismo en el culto funerario de Antíoco I de Comagene
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Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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ISSN: 2603-9117
Year of publication: 2020
Issue: 5
Pages: 36-48
Type: Article
More publications in: Boletín del Archivo Epigráfico
Abstract
At the top of Nemrut Dag, today's eastern Turkey, Antiochus I, King of the Comagene, had a huge burial site built in the 1st century BC with the intention of having a cult held every year in his honour and that of the patriotic gods of his dual Greek and Iranian lineage. An inscription of more than 200 lines explains the entire funeral and iconographic program, and presents sacred rules for observing the cult