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It was found during the excavations carried out by the Museum of Gaziantep at Zeugma/Belkýs Kelekagzi region.
A young man Originally from Phrygia. Metiokhos uras in love with a girl called Parthenope who had vowed to remain a virgin. She was in love with him too but she is also wanted to keep her vow.She cut her hair and became an exile. She went to Campania and devoted herself to the God of wine Dyonysos.(Napoli in Italy is named Parthenope in Greek because of this myth).But those who refused physical love was never forgiven by Aphrodite. For this reason she turned her in to the demon Siren with a woman’s head and a birds body.
It is one of the Sirens. Her grave was said to be in Napoli. She jumped into the sea and suiaded with her sisters; the waves threw her corpse to the shore and a monument was built on Napoli shore in her name. In another version of the myth Parthenope was a young girl originally from Phrygia she fell in love with Metiokhos but she just couldn’t bring herself to take an action against her oath Parthenope punished herself and cut her hair and volunterily went to compania as an exile.She there devoted herself to Dyonysos and Aphrodit who got very angry with her turned Parthenope in to a demen called Siren with a birds body and woman’s head.
The two figures of the mosaic which were smuggled out of Turkey 36 years ago from Zeugma by Euphrates part which will be burried under the Birecik Dam waters, is brought back to Gaziantep from the U.S.A.
The two figures brought back from the USA on June 19 was assambled to the main port of the mosaic. The main port was found in Zeugma in 1993 and was brought to the Museum of Gaziantep.
It is one of the Sirens. Her grave was said to be in Napoli. She jumped into the sea and suiaded with her sisters; the waves threw her corpse to the shore and a monument was built on Napoli shore in her name. In another version of the myth Parthenope was a young girl originally from Phrygia she fell in love with Metiokhos but she just couldn’t bring herself to take an action against her oath Parthenope punished herself and cut her hair and volunterily went to compania as an exile.She there devoted herself to Dyonysos and Aphrodit who got very angry with her turned Parthenope in to a demen called Siren with a birds body and woman’s head.
The two figures of the mosaic which were smuggled out of Turkey 36 years ago from Zeugma by Euphrates part which will be burried under the Birecik Dam waters, is brought back to Gaziantep from the U.S.A.
The two figures brought back from the USA on June 19 was assambled to the main port of the mosaic. The main port was found in Zeugma in 1993 and was brought to the Museum of Gaziantep.
