Taş Kule or Persian Tomb Monument is a 4th century BC Persian influenced tomb near

Phocaea Phocaea or Phokaia (Ancient Greek language, Ancient Greek: Φώκαια, ''Phókaia''; modern-day Foça in Turkey) was an ancient Ionian Ancient Greece, Greek city on the western coast of Anatolia. Colonies in antiquity, Greek colonists from Phoc ...

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Foça Foça is a municipality and Districts of Turkey, district of İzmir Province, Turkey. Its area is 251 km2, and its population is 34,946 (2022). The town of Foça is situated at about northwest of İzmir's city center on the Aegean Sea, Aege ...

in modern day Turkey. Little surviving structures from ancient Phocaea remain today. The structure is 4.5 metres high, consisting of a two-storey structure with the sarcophagus on the top. The tomb was constructed during the Achaemenid Persian period and dates from between 546 and 480 BCE. It is carved from a limestone rock formation. It lies 7 km east of Eski Foça and the modern and probably also ancient road to the settlement runs within 100 metres of the tomb. Nicholas Cahill says that the tomb "does not fit easily into established architectural traditions of Asia Minor; no exact parallels are known for its shape and decoration. Hence there is no general agreement about its date or the architectural tradition to which it belongs", though it has been compared to earlier Phrygian monuments.

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