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(Arkeolojik Haber website, 25 November 2020)
They'll need extra masks for COVID.
In Muğla's Yatağan district, during excavations at the 3,000-year-old
Strakoniekeia Antique City, which is on the UNESCO World Heritage
Temporary List, 10 masks thought to be 2,200-years-old have been
exposed.
The mythologic masks were found in the area of the antique theater at
Stratonikeia, where artifacts from the Greek, Roman, Byzantine,
Ottoman and Republican periods have been discovered. The dig team
had found a total of 33 masks over the past two years and now that
total has reached 43. The masks have been cleaned, repaired and put
on display.
Excavation leader Prof. Dr. Bilal Söğüt explained that "We've been
working here at Stratonikeia and Lagina antique cities for two years.
Right now, the excavation work is at the west and north avenues, along
with the antique theater and we are putting things in order in the village
center, too. We had already found 33 masks and today another 10 from
beneath the ground. We are putting the masks in their original order."
Ancient intubation underway.
"When people come here, before they enter the theater, seeing the masks
surrounding the theater building, they will be struck by the magnificence
and appearance of the theater. So we are putting the masks on display
to show the richness, splendor, culture, art and architecture of the
period."
Prof. Söğüt said that the masks depict the characters in the plays of
those days, as well as gods, goddesses and animals. The masks
blocks are brought to a "rock hospital" in the antique city for cleaning
and preservation work and these newly found masks will soon join
the others on display.
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