From kolb@ucla.edu Sun May 13 13:07:41 2001 Received: from mxu2.u.washington.edu (mxu2.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.9]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.11.2+UW01.01/8.11.2+UW01.04) with ESMTP id f4DK7e077194 for ; Sun, 13 May 2001 13:07:40 -0700 Received: from caracal.noc.ucla.edu (caracal.noc.ucla.edu [169.232.10.11]) by mxu2.u.washington.edu (8.11.2+UW01.01/8.11.2+UW01.04) with ESMTP id f4DK7dK24486 for ; Sun, 13 May 2001 13:07:39 -0700 Received: from kolb.ucla.edu (ts16-143.dialup.bol.ucla.edu [164.67.26.152]) by caracal.noc.ucla.edu (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA12849 for ; Sun, 13 May 2001 13:07:38 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <5.0.0.25.2.20010513130848.07cccb60@pop.bol.ucla.edu> X-Sender: kolb@pop.bol.ucla.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0 Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 13:08:58 -0700 To: classics@u.washington.edu From: Jack Kolb Subject: Huge Ancient Hercules Statue Found Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed May 12, 2001 ANKARA, Turkey (AP) -- Officials have found a 10-foot-tall statue of Hercules, dated to 2200 B.C., dumped at a construction site in the northwestern city of Izmit, a news report said Saturday. Museum officials believe smugglers unearthed the statue, weighing more than three tons, and left it at the construction site so that they could retrieve it later, the Anatolia news agency said. The head, an arm and a leg of the statue are missing, but Anatolia quoted museum officials as saying it is the most precious artifact found in Izmit to date. The statue has dent marks, which officials believe may have been caused while being moved with bulldozers. Museum officials could not be reached for comment. Despite heavy penalties against smugglers, antiquities and treasures dating to the Ottoman era are frequently illegally sold to art collectors overseas. Izmit is 212 miles west of Ankara, the capital. Izmit is the modern name of the ancient city of Nicomedia. .