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  • Türkiye, Sağırlı
  • geo:40.902107,37.915459

Period or year

  • -100~ / unknown

Classification

  • altar
  • Visible

Kurul Castle (Ordu) - Kybele Statue

data access 29344

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.

 

  1. S. Yücel Şenyurt, Atakan Akçay, Doğu Karadeniz Kibelesi - Atlas, 2016- https://www.academia.edu/29825100
  2. 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

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Creators: Entry created by Elżbieta (2016-11-14) , with possible contributions by others. CC BY-SA 4.0, metadata CC-0.
Persistent URI: https://vici.org/vici/29344
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Suggested citation: Elżbieta , Kurul Castle (Ordu) - Kybele Statue. https://vici.org/vici/29344, accessed 2026-10-31.