2,000-year-old female statue discovered in ancient Vlandos – Watch video

Archaeologists discovered in its Hellenistic city of ancient Vlandos in the west Turkey female statue dating from the Roman period.

The 1.90m tall statue, missing the head and arms, is estimated to be around 2,000 years old and was discovered in excavations carried out since 2018 around her temple Dimitras in the area Ulubeysouth of the modern city of Usak.

Watch video from the moment of discovery:

📜 Blaundos Antik Kenti’nde Keşif Bir Keşif!

Uşak’ta Blaundos Antik Kenti kazılarında, Roma Erken İmperatorluk Dönemi’ne ait bir kadın ışüyü gün üzüne ıldıldı. Bu eser, tarihimizin gezen mirasını bir kez daha gözler ölle seriyor.

An important and unique discovery of daylight… pic.twitter.com/aHdXBetXJW

— Mehmet Nuri Ersoy (@MehmetNuriErsoy) September 21, 2024

The statue, after being preserved, is expected to be exhibited after about 5-6 months at Archaeological Museum of UsakSabri Ceylan, director of the local branch of Turkey’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism, told Anadolu Agency.

Ancient Vlaundos – known as Mlandos at the time Macedonian soldiers of the Seleucids settled there – is located approximately 40 km south of Usak and 200 km east of Smyrna. Although many of the larger inland cities of Asia Minor, such as Sardis and Hierapolis, have been systematically excavated, the smaller ones, such as the relatively well-preserved Vlandus, remain largely unexplored. Vlandos was inhabited from the Hellenistic to the Byzantine period. In the Middle Ages the city seems to have been abandoned for good.