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Posted on 07/19/2023 7:48:06 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
A centuries-old tomb stele smuggled from the ancient Turkish city of Zeugma to Italy has been returned to its home, Turkish Culture and Tourism Minister Mehmet Nuri Ersoy announced on July 13.
A stele is a standing stone slab used in the ancient world for several purposes, including grave and tomb markers, dedications, commemorations and demarcations.
The repatriated tomb stele depicts a noblewoman, wearing a veil and a tunic. Her right hand is placed on her left breast. Under the bust refiguring the deceased is an inscription in ancient Greek reading, "Satornila, the wife who loves her husband, farewell!"
The Venetian authorities seized the Zeugma-origin stele, which was smuggled years ago from the southeastern province of Gaziantep’s Zeugma region...
As a result of the research conducted by Prof. Dr. Kutalmış Gürkan, the head of the Zeugma excavations, it was determined that the artifact was of Zeugma origin...
In early February, the 11 southern provinces, including Gaziantep, jolted by the devastating earthquakes, claimed the lives of more than 50,000 people and caused severe damage to many historical structures and museums.
The Zeugma Museum remained closed for 74 days following the earthquakes.
(Excerpt) Read more at hurriyetdailynews.com ...
The sweetness of honey and the sting of bees.
So, the stele was stolen?..................
“Was this yours?” “Uh, hmm, let me check... yeah, it’s ours!”
Repatriation of artifacts is riddled with BS.
BTW, most of the ruins of Greco-Roman Zeugma now lie underneath some hydro project built by the Turks, but the bits that are open to tourists are a UNESCO site. Whee.
https://freerepublic.com/tag/zeugma/index
https://www.archaeology.org/issues/44-1211/features/252-features-zeugma-after-the-flood
FIFY
Good. Now they can give us Hagia Sophia back.
What’s so funny about Hagie Sophia is that the Muslims left the FRESCOES of people still visible......although, That might have changed since I saw it in 2011......I think I read that they made it into a Mosque now instead of a Museum.
There is strictly no such a thing as an "ancient Turkish city". All truly ancient habitations in modern Turkey are of non-Turkish origin and construction. They are mostly Greek. The Turks simply 'inherited' them after replacing the original ethnicities with their own.
Turkiye receives ancient tomb stele repatriated from Italy
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Now if the host of countries would just return the thousands of stolen obelisks to Egypt.
Every couple of years some Egyptian muzzie nimrod announces that Egypt must destroy the Pyramids. So, screw that idea.
The Sweetness of Honey and the Sting of Bees:
A Book of Love from the Ancient Mediterranean
by Michelle Louvric
and Nikiforos Doxiadis Mardas
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