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A marble sculpture of the Greek god Hermes is found in Bulgaria
2024-07-06 10:13:01 / BOTA
Bulgarian archaeologists found, while excavating ancient Roman sewers, a preserved marble sculpture of the ancient Greek messenger of the gods Hermes.
The two-meter-tall statue was discovered this week during excavations at the site of the ancient city of Heraclea Sintika in southwestern Bulgaria, near the border with Greece, Reuters reports.
Archaeologists who carried out the work explained that the statue was preserved because after the earthquake that destroyed the city around 388, it was carefully placed in the sewers and covered with soil.
"His head is preserved and there are some fragments in his hands," said the leader of the team of archaeologists Ludmil Vagalinski.
Herakleia Sintika was a large city founded by the Macedonian king Philip II of Macedon between 356 and 339 BC in the present-day Bulgarian region of Macedonian Pirinska.
Archaeologists say that the citizens of Heraclea Syntica probably tried to preserve the statue, even after Christianity was adopted as the official religion of the Roman Empire. After an earthquake, Herakleia Syntika fell apart and was abandoned around 500 AD.
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