Posted on 11/26/2018 10:19:10 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Pieces of a renowned Roman mosaic that were looted and eventually sold to an American university are to be returned to Turkey, thetimes.co.uk reports.
The twelve fragments once formed parts of the border of the "gypsy girl" mosaic in the ancient Roman settlement of Zeugma, close to the modern Turkish city of Gaziantep, and show human faces and birds.
The near-complete main part of the mosaic, which has remained in Turkey, depicts a girl with windswept hair and an intense stare. It is on display in Gaziantep's Zeugma mosaics museum and has become an unofficial symbol of the city. The mosaic goes back to AD200-300.
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That horny old Zeus sure got around.
I wonder in which wing of the house it was found.
Owww, you got me.
“The mosaic goes back to AD200-300”
But the Gypsies only go back about 1000 years. Odd choice of name.
That is why when you walk the stations of the cross in Jerusalem the faces have been picked out.
But if the new Calphate is going to be established by a new force in conservative orthodox Islam, Mr. Ergogan, in Turkey what about the policy of no representations of human forms in art>
Are we going to see the new destruction impulse in Turkey that ruined the Bhuddas of Bamiyan or the wholesale destruction of Ephesus. These folks have shown some traits that do not bode well for items like this.
Like the region's other dictators, Erdogan still purports to want tourist traffic, for the cash it brings in. Islamic gov'ts always wind up destroying ancient sites by attempting to turn them into Disneyworld.
:^)
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