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2,100-year-old statue of Cybele the Anatolian mother goddess unearthed in northwestern Turkey
>An estimated 2,100-year-old rare marble statue of Cybele, the mother goddess of Anatolia, has been unearthed in excavations in northwestern Ordu province located on the Black Sea coast.
>The historic sculpture of Cybele sitting on her throne weighed a whopping 200 kilograms and was about 110 centimeters tall.
>The statue is also the first marble statue found in Turkey in its original place.
http://www.dailysabah.com/history/2016/09/09/2100-year-old-statue-of-cybele-the-anatolian-mother-goddess-unearthed-in-northwestern-turkey
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>>1674301
The pope is going to be so happy! They've been wearing a hat in her honor for centuries!
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>drapery
interesting
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>>1674301
Looks like Mother Maria
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>>1674301
gaurantee you she wasnt 18
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>Near Setif (Mauretania), the dendrophores and the faithful (religiosi) restored their temple of Cybele and Attis after a disastrous fire in 288 CE. Lavish new fittings paid for by the private group included the silver statue of Cybele and her processional chariot; the latter received a new canopy with tassels in the form of fir cones.[126] Cybele drew ire from Christians throughout the Empire; when St. Theodore of Amasea was granted time to recant his beliefs, he spent it by burning a temple of Cybele instead.[127]
Good thing the Christians didn't find this statue back then, eh?
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>>1675367
Iconoclasts in the Byzantine Empire were breaking everybody's shit, even Christianity's.
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Anti-cancer bump for an interesting and potentially good thread
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>>1674301
Anatolian cultures seem like they were somehow very influential but we know nothing about them: the Lydians, Phrygians, and Lycians until they got Hellenized.
Bythnians were Muslim
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>>1677493
>Bythnians were Muslim
Didn't Hannibal stay with the Bythnians for awhile? Doesn't that predate Islam by like a millennium or so?
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>>1675375
>Iconoclasts in the Byzantine Empire were breaking everybody's shit, even Christianity's
>St. Theodore of Amasea
>Died 306 AD
>Iconoclasts in the Byzantine Empire
>306 AD
Yeah, nah, he was just another Christian dindu ISIS'ing it up in antiquity.
>Be Theodore of Amasea
>Be recruited into Roman Army
>Refuse to observe the religious rites of the community because of my fedora-tier edgelord LARPer religion
>Get arrested and let off with a warning
>throw a tantrum because those dirty heathens won't worship my god, damnit!
>Set fire to a temple of Cybele
>Get """"""""""martyred"""""""""" for it
>Be venerated as a saint for nothing more than chimping out and committing arson
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>>1677493
You're stupid, Bythinians are far older than islam.
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>>1674301
That's cool, but what's your point ? Olny informative ? Ancient hellenistic statues are often found.
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