Father Firat!

Euphrates! Here shown first as the Roman god of the River, as depicted in the Zeugma mosaics in the Gaziantep museum and then below, the river itself, taken from high up on the gorge, at Rumkale on the dam. Roman rule and influence stretched firmly as far as the river in Antiquity and the thought of a special river god shows how firmly rooted in Roman culture Anatolia was. See hos the river flows from his waterpot. The river Euphrates was at the time in a sense the divider between East and West, Roman and Persian.