Tuesday, October 24, 2017

Real PEPLUM : Hercules carved into limestone in Turkey



Carole Raddato is someone I follow on Twitter and Flickr, and recently she and her boyfriend Alan visited Turkey and took some pictures of this amazing old carving of Hercules. She wrote :

'Unfinished relief of Hercules carved into a limestone block in a quarry outside of Nicaea, 3rd century AD, Iznik, Turkey'

Cool stuff!

Carole's Flickr account and her Twitter account!
























2 comments:

Idus said...

The resemblance to Steve is incredible!

Anonymous said...

On the ancient Greek city of Nicaea:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicaea