Artifacts on Antalya mosque’s wall fountain to be taken to museum
Published 09 Apr,2021 via Hürriyet Daily News - Following the discovery of some late Roman period embossed steles and a lid of a sarcophagus with a lion engraved on a wall fountain in a yard of a village mosque in the Mediterranean province of Antalya’s Korkuteli district, authorities have launched a comprehensive investigation in the village.
As a result of the inspection, it was determined that there were 21 more immovable cultural assets, including tomb covers, tomb steles and column fragments with inscriptions in the streets and even on the walls of some houses in the village.
Experts found that the historical artifacts, estimated to be 1,700 years old, were moved from an ancient settlement, which was declared as an archaeological site in 2016, about 1.5 kilometers southwest of the settlement.
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