In September, the Nymph statue, which was found during the Gymnasium excavations carried out in the Amasra district of Bartı and dated to the 2nd century AD, started to be exhibited in the Amasra Museum.
Stating that they reached the artifact at a depth of approximately 4 meters during the excavation works, Amasra Museum Director Güray Can Aytekin said, “We named the statue ‘water nymph’ because of the pool and the water layer formed in the area where it was excavated. In the examinations we made in our Museum Directorate, we have visited and exhibited the statue, which we evaluated as closer to Aphrodite, as a result of the work of our laboratory.”
ᴀssoc. Prof. Dr. Fatma Bağdatlı Çam, Head of the Department of Art History at the Faculty of Letters of Bartın University, who provided scientific consultancy to the excavations, pointed out that the preference of the Aphrodite type in the work is also an indication of the monumentality of the building.
