The 3,000-year-old statue in Turkey reflects feminism

The statue of women discovered in Turkey may reflect the role of women in ancient political and religious life.

Archaeologists at the University of Toronto, Canada discovered the remains of a 3,000-year-old statue in Turkey that could change the way women perceive their roles in ancient society, Fox News on August 14 reported.

The upper part of the ruins made of basalt rocks is over a meter longer than 0.5 meters wide, with curls beneath the headscarf covering the shoulders and back. The original 4-5m high statue, placed in the compound of the outer gate of Kunulua, the capital of the Patina Kingdom existed from 1000 to 738 BC. This place is about 7km west of Aleppo, Syria.

Ruins of a female statue were discovered in the city gate complex.(Photo: Archeological Project Tayinat).

The remains of the statue discovered on the pieces of basalt may be portraits of Kubaba , the mother of ancient Anatolia gods, according to archaeologists.

However, it is also possible that the statue was carved in the form of the wife of Suppiluliuma or a woman named Kupapiyas, Taita's wife or mother, the founder of the ancient dynasty of Tayinat, formerly known as Kunulua .

"The statue shows the possibility that women have played a more prominent role in political and religious life in early Iron Age communities compared to those recorded in historical data that existed. " , Timothy Harrison, professor of Middle and Near Eastern Civilizations, director of the Architects Project Tayitnat.

The gate complex where the statue was discovered was destroyed in the Assyrian conquest in 738 BC. From this point, Tayinat became the capital of an Assyrian province with its governor and his own government.