Mount Nemrut Mount Nemrut Nemrut or Nemrud (; ; ) is a mountain in southeastern Turkey, notable for the summit where a number of large statues are erected around what is assumed to be a royal tomb from the 1st century BC. The mountain lies north of Kahta, near Adıyaman. In 62 BC, King Antiochus I Theos of Commagene built on the mountain top a tomb-sanctuary flanked by huge statues of himself, two lions, two eagles and various Greek, Armenian, and Medes gods, such as Zeus-Aramazd or Oromasdes (associated with Zoroastrian god Ahura Mazda), Hercules-Vahagn, Tyche-Bakht, and Apollo-Mihr-Mithras. These statues were once
20936 Nemrut Dagi has a rather spheroidal shape. The results supersede previous observations made by Warner and by Brian A. Skiff, which gave similar results (). According to the surveys carried out by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer with its subsequent NEOWISE mission, the asteroid has an exceptionally high albedo of 0.46 and a diameter of 3.6 kilometers, while the "Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link" assumed a standard albedo for stony asteroids of 0.20, and correspondingly, calculates a much larger diameter of 5.3 kilometers based on an absolute magnitude of 13.8. This minor planet was named after the a dormant volcano Nemrut (Nemrut Dağı)