Items - Architecture and Asceticism

Urfa City Walls

The traces of the west wall of the city, subsumed into buildings of many different periods.

Type: Architecture
Tags: Architecture, Defensive Network, Edessa, Turkey, Urfa, Wall

Overview of where the Halepli Bahçe mosaics were discovered

The region of Halepli Bahçe where the Villa of the Amazons was discovered.

Type: Architecture
Tags: Edessa, Turkey, Urfa, Villa of the Amazons

The chambers are cut out of the rock beneath the west wall of the old city and have the old city to their east and the Halepli Bahçe to their west. They have been excavated by bulldozer as a new hotel is to be constructed over the chambers and the ruins are to be incorporated into the new building.

Type: Architecture
Tags: Caves, Edessa, Rock-cut, Tomb, Turkey, Urfa

Urfa City Walls

The most complete section of the ancient city walls still extant is in the north-eastern sector of the old city around what is now known as the 'Bey Gate', but which was in fact a bastion.

Type: Architecture
Tags: Architecture, Bey, Defensive Network, Edessa, Gate, Turkey, Urfa, Wall

The well of the Prophet Job

A well and cave that are associated by local tradition with the places where the Prophet Job suffered and was then cured of a skin disease are located to the south of the old city of Urfa. The complex is called the Eyyüp Peygamber Makamı and the well head is constructed of reused Roman masonry.

Type: Architecture
Tags: Caves, Edessa, Eyyup, Job, Mosque, Roman, Shrine, Turkey, Urfa, Well

Harran Gate, one of the south gates into the old city of Urfa

The Harran gate is built around the original late antique gate and incorporates late antique elements as well as Seljuk sculpture. These views show bot the north and south sides of the gate.

Type: Architecture
Tags: Architecture, Defensive Network, Edessa, Gate, Harran, Late Antique, Sculpture, Seljuk, Turkey, Urfa, Wall