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Turkish Archaeologists Unearth Sculpted Heads of Ancient Greek Deities

The excavations in Kutahya province’s ancient city of Aizanoi, which is the site of many ancient Greek and Roman-era settlements, discover the statue heads of Dionysus and Aphrodite.

Turkish archaeologists have discovered more sculpted heads of ancient Greek deities during excavations in Türkiye's western Kutahya province.

The statue head of Aphrodite, known as the goddess of love and beauty in Greek mythology, and the statue head of Dionysus, the deity of wine, were discovered during excavation work in an ancient city in central Türkiye.

Modern Türkiye is the site of many ancient Greek and Roman-era settlements.

With a history dating back 5,000 years, Aizanoi, situated 50 kilometres (31 miles) from the Kutahya city centre, was included in the UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List in 2012.

Archaeological excavations are currently underway in Aizanoi, which is located in the Cavdarhisar district of Kutahya province and is home to Anatolia's best-preserved Temple of Zeus.

Archaeology professor and excavation team leader Gokhan Coskun told Anadolu Agency that numerous statue pieces were discovered during the excavation.

"The most exciting development for us this season is uncovering new heads of the goddess of love and beauty, Aphrodite, and the deity of wine Dionysus," Coskun said.

"In the excavation works we have conducted in the region so far, we have unearthed more than 100 statue pieces. Some of the heads found are from statues that are 2-3 meters long," he noted.

"These statue heads, which we first discovered three years ago, are in very well-preserved condition. During our excavations, so far we have discovered two Aphrodite and three Dionysus statue heads," Coskun said.

The excavation season, which began in the ancient city last April, will be completed by the end of this month, Coskun added.

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Frederick Augustus Hervey, 4th Earl of Bristol and Bishop of Derry (1730-1803)

Artist: Attributed to Hugh Douglas Hamilton (Irish, 1739/40-1808)

Date: c. 1805

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: National Trust Collections, London, United Kingdom

Description

Frederick Augustus Hervey, 4th Earl of Bristol and Bishop of Derry (1730 - 1803).

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Ptolemaic Marble Bust of a Youth with Roman Bronze Figure of Hercules

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R.Tanaka - From the series “ No trace of Mr. Braeckman”

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The King of Fools

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[Rook voice] maybe if you had some friends you'd calm down 🙄

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The Human Brian

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And by "it," I mean. his katra

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Dan deserved both. Meg to keep him alive, Herbert to get him almost killed every night

Too bad Meg and Herbert would eventually kill each other

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this was supposed to be just a doodle erm

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couldn't decide which version I find funnier so Tim just has to suffer twice - happy pride month!!

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ROMAN MARBLE HEAD OF A GERMANIC WARRIOR 2ND-3RD CENTURY A.D.

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Andrea Odoni

Artist: Lorenzo Lotto (Italian, c. 1480-1556)

Date: 1527

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Royal Collection Trust, London, United KIngdom

Description

This portrait of the successful Venetian merchant Andrea Odoni (1488-1545) is one of the most innovative and dynamic portraits of the Italian Renaissance by Lorenzo Lotto, recently returned to Venice after thirteen years in Bergamo and anxious to impress possible patrons in Venice. The Venetian collector holds in one hand a statuette of Diana of Ephesus, symbol of nature and idolatry, and with the other he clasps a cross to his chest. One of several interpretations of this gesture is that Christianity takes precedence over nature and the pagan gods of antiquity.

The portrait has aptly been described as one of the finest and most ambitious of all of Lotto's portraits and a deliberate challenge to Titian's supremacy in the field. The portrait was recorded in the owner's bedroom in his house on the Fondamenta del Gaffero by Marcantonio Michiel when he visited the collection in 1532. Giorgio Vasari mentions the portrait 'che è molto bello', which he must have seen when he visited Venice ten years later. The painting was also included in the 1555 inventory of his brother and heir, Alvise Odoni.

The son of a wealthy recent Milanese immigrant to the city, Andrea Odoni was an important member of the cittadini. He built upon the collection which he had inherited from his uncle, Francesco Zio, to become a renowned collector of paintings, sculpture, antique vases, coins, gems and natural history specimens. This portrait was hung in Odoni's bedroom alongside The Virgin and Child with the Infant St John and a Female Saint or Donor, now in the National Gallery, London. The house also contained an unusual combination of ancient and modern statuary, with 'mutilated and lacerated antique marble heads and other figures'. Pietro Aretino (the poet and satirist) wrote to Odoni (in a letter of 1538) that he had recreated Rome in Venice, though elsewhere he describes the splendours of the house in a tone that suggests it overstepped the boundaries of Venetian decorum. Giorgio Vasari called Odoni's house 'a friendly haven for men of talent'.

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Oh dear lord, they’re multiplying… and they’ve already committed a hate crime ):

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*Proudly stands in the middle of the empty stage and says* "Sculptor." Suddenly I hear the hollow applauses and see my own reflections sitting on the chairs and we all are happy

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Awaiting the Storm