Üçgöz (formerly known as Sofraz or Sofrazköy) is a village in the Besni District, Adıyaman Province, Turkey.Köy, Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 12 January 2023. Its population is 1,086 (2021). Before the 2013 reorganisation, it was a town (belde).Law No. 6360, Official Gazette, 6 December 2012 .
Archeology South of the village flows the Sofraz Çayı (also called the Değirmen Çayı), a tributary of the Göksu.
South of the village is an ancient settlement of Hellenistic and Roman date (based on archaeological finds). In this area, a stele was found in 1973, which shows Antiochus I of Commagene and Apollo shaking hands. Another find was a funerary altar with a relief carving of a griffin on a wheel and an inscription in which the genealogy of a noble Commagenian family is described. The altar is now on display in the Adıyaman Archaeological Museum. Near the settlement are the two , which contain Roman chamber tombs.Michael Blömer, Engelbert Winter: Commagene, The Land of Gods Between the Taurus and the Euphrates Homer Kitabevi, Istanbul 2011, , S. 168–172.
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