page_title: Perrhe
section_title: Description
hierarchical_section_title: Perrhe / Description
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Perrhe, kommagenische Stadt bei Adıyaman, Südtürkei, Nekropole
context_page_description: Perrhe was an ancient city in the kingdom of Commagene. The remains of the city are located in the modern suburb of Örenli in the northern section of the Turkish city of Adıyaman in the province of the same name.
context_section_description: Perrhe/Pirin is reached from the city of Adıyaman by travelling along Atatürk Bulvarı along a signposted route via Sakarya Caddesi. After about four kilometres, the necropolis appears on the left, stretching along the side of the street for almost a kilometre. After that one reaches the former village of Pirin. In the centre of the village is the Roman water fountain with a five-metre-wide (16 ft) stone vault covering a water channel. Remains of the city walls also survive. The vast necropolis contains free-standing sarcophagi and simple vaulted burial niches, as well as catacombs, which often contain several rooms, with vaulted niches dug out of the cliff face and irregularly separated by pilasters. Most of the graves are grouped together in sections accessed by stairs carved into the cliff face at various points. Some of the tombs have remains of reliefs still surviving in front of the entranceways, but there is no other decoration.
caption: Catacombs with burial chambers and pilasters
exif: {"Image Orientation": "Horizontal (normal)", "Image XResolution": "35", "Image YResolution": "35", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Centimeter", "Image Software": "Adobe Photoshop CS Windows", "Image DateTime": "2011:10:23 19:37:26", "Image ExifOffset": "164", "Thumbnail Compression": "JPEG (old-style)", "Thumbnail XResolution": "72", "Thumbnail YResolution": "72", "Thumbnail ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormat": "302", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormatLength": "5852", "EXIF ColorSpace": "Uncalibrated", "EXIF ExifImageWidth": "5184", "EXIF ExifImageLength": "3456"}