It appears that I left my disclosure of Kibyra with the news that the site would open to the public in 2017 (see: The tempting site of Kibyra).
Last year's excavations yielded two important artifacts: an Asclepius statue and a Zeus-Serapis bust.
The
38-centimeter-high statuette of the Greek god of Health, Asclepius, was
uncovered inside the so-called Caesarian, the
The other object unearthed this time in the Roman Baths was the head of a bearded man.
To the greatest joy of the archaeologists, the head fitted a bust made of Afyon marble discovered in
these baths in 2019. The bust represents Serapis, an Egyptian god who was
worshiped in combination with Zeus at the time. Zeus-Serapis was the god of the
Underworld and Fertility, the main god of
Both artifacts have been moved to the Archaeological Museum of Burdur, where they will be exhibited very soon.
Kibyra sat at
the crossroads of important trade routes connected to Caria,
Today's buildings are mainly constructions from Roman times and, more precisely, from after 23 AD, i.e., when the city was destroyed by a major earthquake. It was Emperor Tiberius who financed its reconstruction and renamed it Caesarea Kibyra.
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