The park entrance is 200m from Çeşme Pansion and 2.5km before the junction to to Eski Kale. From that carpark, hike 600m uphill (about 20 minutes) to the western terrace. Antiochus I Epiphanes ordered the construction of a combined tomb and temple here. Antiochus and his fellow gods sit in state, although their bodies and heads have partly tumbled down. From the western terrace it's five minutes' walk around to the eastern terrace. Here the bodies are largely intact, except for the fallen heads, which seem more badly weathered than the western heads.
On the backs of the eastern statues are inscriptions in Greek. Both terraces have similar plans, with the syncretistic gods, the 'ancestors' of Antiochus, seated. From left to right they are Apollo, the sun god (Mithra to the Persians; Helios or Hermes to the Greeks); Fortuna, or Tyche; Zeus-Ahura Mazda in the centre; then King Antiochus; and on the far right Heracles, also known as Ares or Artagnes.
Low walls at the sides of each temple once held carved reliefs showing processions of ancient Persian and Greek royalty, Antiochus' 'predecessors'. Statues of eagles represent Zeus.
The site was to be approached by a ceremonial road and was to incorporate what Antiochus termed 'the thrones of the gods', which would be based 'on a foundation that will never be demolished'.
