We reached the site of Nemrut Dagh quite late in the day,
with a walk to the top of the hill where Antiochus I had erected
statues of himself & the old gods,
as well as a large hill/tumulus of fist sized stones,
which surely must have been broken up in situ..
maybe this kind of rock will shatter like that
He was the ruler of Commagene from 70 to 38 BC,
it lay between the Roman & Parthian empires
so he'd have been a clever negotiator
a wide view from the 7000 ft hill
& a lovely glow at sunset
Posed here in 1883, Osman Hamdi Bey,
was a painter & had a lot to do with setting up the
marvellous Archeological museum in Istanbul.
(I picked up some time-tripping tourists on the glass case)
& again, on site.
