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His news circulated on the Internet bust discovery during the work of the City Council of Athens. Earlier, Costas Bakoyannis announced the important news in a message on social media, followed by enthusiastic comments from thousands of social media users.
According to a publication by the mayor of Athens, Costas Bakogiannis, an archaeological find was found “underground, during the infrastructure improvement works on Aiolou street, in Agia Irini square“, A photo of which he was quick to upload to Facebook.
The news that went around the Internet has not yet been confirmed by the Archaeological Ephorate of Athens. However, as everything shows, it is about some heads of a hermetic column that dominated in Attica, on the facades of houses initially during the Peisistratidas period in the middle of the 6th century BC. C. and later during Roman times.
The hermetic columns were tall rectangular columns, in whose upper part a bust dominated by several important figures of Ancient Greece and were adopted, by the crown of Peisistratidis Hipparchus.
According to Pausanias, in ancient times they weren’t so square but they were shaped like a stone, the so-called hills of Hermes, on which they placed symbolic figures.
They later evolved and were widely adopted during the Roman period: in Delo, for example, they are dominated by hermetic columns in the shape of a phallus, inherited from the Greeks from the Pelasgians. The columns were placed there for good luck and strength, for the protection of property and for this reason they were mostly attributed to the god Hermes.
In roman times they were not shaped like Mercury but several high-ranking generals had a functional use, that is, they served to find the right path. That is why they abounded; Especially in the center of Athens, many of these finds have been found that currently dominate the halls of the National Archaeological Museum, the Benaki Museum and other places.
However, more announcements are expected from the archaeological service.
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