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Dick Osseman | all galleries >> Galleries >> Niksar Turkey > Niksar converted sarcophagus
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Niksar converted sarcophagus

This is another mosque, with decent decoration at the entrance and on one side a sarcophagus that has been restructured into a çesme, a place to drink water. On its top the decoration on the sarcophagus’ lid shows a man milking an animal and a shepherd.

On the picture: A shepherd playing the bagpipes, while grazing his sheep.
The Roman sarcophagus was brought over (in 1921) from the nearby Harmancık Hill, where a large Roman necropolis has been excavated.

Correspondent: J.M.Criel, Antwerpen.
Source: ‘Tokat’ (Ersal Yavi) – Tokat Otelcilik ve Turizm A.Ş. (1986) .


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