The detail to look for on this tomb is a row of heads: between the podium and the body run the heads of Medusa, the mythological creature who turned to stone whatever she looked at, a motif met with on tombs of the classical period.
The tomb is dated to the second or third century AD, built of cut stone, with a body rising on a square podium under a cross-vaulted roof and arches on two sides. It is at Elif, in the Araban district, reached by public transport.
Getting there
- Access
- Reached by public transport.
When to go
- Climate
- Across Gaziantep as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from 3.2 °C in January to 28.1 °C in July; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in May, June, September and October; rainfall is heaviest in January (103 mm) and lightest in August (5 mm). Long-term means for 1940-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
