The geographer Strabo states that the wealth of Tantalus was derived from the mines of Phrygia and Mount Sipylus. Near Mount Sipylus are archaeological features that have been associated with Tantalus and his house since Antiquity. Near Mount Yamanlar in İzmir (ancient Smyrna), where the Lake Karagöl (Lake Tantalus) associated with the accounts surrounding him is found, is a monument mentioned by Pausanias: the tholos tomb of Tantalus (later Christianized as Saint Charalambos' tomb) and another one in Mount Sipylus, and where a throne of Pelops, an altar or bench carved in rock and conjecturally associated with his son is found.