Kapılıkaya is a Hellenistic rock tomb of the second century BC, cut into the north-west corner of a mass of rock running northwards, on broken ground of steep, rocky, deep valleys at Kirkdilim in the Laçin district, about 27 kilometres north of Çorum.
Over the door of the grave chamber are the word Ikezios and a cross motif coloured with red ochre. The chamber is square in plan, with figures of the dead cut as niches to the right and left of the entrance. It is at the 27th kilometre of the Çorum-Osmancık road, and there is a car park and a viewing terrace there for people passing.
Getting there
- Access
- At the twenty-seventh kilometre of the Çorum–Osmancık road, at Kırkdilim in the Laçin district. There is a car park and a viewing terrace for passing travellers.
When to go
- Climate
- Across Çorum as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from -0.2 °C in January to 21.4 °C in August; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in May, June, July, August and September; rainfall is heaviest in May (62 mm) and lightest in August (15 mm). Long-term means for 1929-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
