Sofia. A crew of archaeologists has not too long ago found a well-preserved historic statue of the Greek god Hermes in a sewer throughout work that’s nonetheless ongoing within the historic metropolis of Heraclea Sintica in southwestern Bulgaria.
The determine, nearly two metres tall, represents Hermes, the Greek deity and son of Zeus, answerable for commerce, wealth, luck and fertility. In accordance with the director of the archaeologists, Lyudmil Vagalinski, who spoke to the native press, the statue, which dates again to the 2nd century AD, solely has a number of fractures within the fingers.
The scientist defined that this piece of marble was a Roman copy of an historic Greek authentic.
Heraclea Sintica (close to the border with Greece) is described as having been a big metropolis based by the traditional king Philip II of Macedon between 356 and 339 BC in what’s now the Bulgarian area of Pirin Macedonia.
Archaeologists additionally defined that after the earthquake that hit town round 388 AD, the statue was fastidiously positioned within the sewers and lined with earth, which explains its good situation.
As for its discovery in a sewer or drain, there are hypotheses akin to that it was in all probability positioned there to guard it from earthquakes; others recommend that it was to save lots of this deity from Christians who had been destroying pagan sculptures.
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– 2024-07-10 19:23:24
