The sculpture of Cybele sitting on her throne placed in a rectangular naiskos dates to the time of Mithridates, king of Pontus and Armenia Minor in northern Anatolia from 120 to 63 BC. In Anatolian mythology Kybele, Phrygian: Matar Kubileya/Kubeleya "Kubeleyan Mother was the personification of earth.
- S. Yücel Şenyurt, Atakan Akçay, Doğu Karadeniz Kibelesi - Atlas, 2016- https://www.academia.edu/29825100
- idem et Serra Durugönül: Kurul (Ordu) Kalesi’nde Bir Kybele Heykeli (A Cybele Statue in the Fortress of Kurul (Ordu), i: OLBA XXVI, Mersin Üniversitesi 2018, pp.305-344
