A statue of Mercury from the Roman Imperial period was brought to light by Turkish archaeologists, during excavations in the ancient city of Asbend, as part of the program of the Turkish Ministry of Culture “Heritage for the Future”.

According to a post by the Turkish Minister of Culture and Tourism, Mehmet Nuri Ersoy, the heads of Aphrodite and the love and fragments of Artemis and Nemesis statues were also discovered in the same area.

“In Aspendo, the silent witness of time, they have come to light forms buried for centuries,” Mehmet Nuri Ersoy wrote in X.

The statue of Hermes was revealed in fragments during the excavations and reassured in an integral form in the excavation warehouse.

The statue, along with its base, reaches 1.65 meters high and goes back to the end of the second to the third century AD.

Aspend was an ancient Greek city in the area of ​​Pamphylia in Asia Minor, about 40 km east of today’s coastal city of Antalya in Turkey.

It was a colony of Greeks from Argos that allegedly founded it around 1000 BC.

333 BC The city was occupied by Alexander the Great in 190 BC. It falls to the Romans after a great disaster.

From the end of the Roman period and then during the Byzantine, Aspend has received a Latin name called “Primopolis” because of its commerciality, but it began to decline.

From the relics of the ancient city that are adjacent to the present -day Balkis hill in your river Balke or Kyoprou (as the ancient Eurymedon River is called today), the ancient Greco -Roman theater and the Roman aqueduct.