2 piers belong to 1st century A.D. unearthed in W Turkey

Archaeologists have unearthed two piers belonging to the first century A.D. in the ancient city of Aphrodisias located near Karacasu town of the western Turkish province of Aydin, the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported on Thursday.
Prof. Dr. Roland Smith of the Oxford University, who heads the archaeological excavations in the ancient city, was quoted as saying that they found pieces of a beautiful arch and two piers during this year's excavations.
He said that the piers were decorated with a lion head placed between two bull heads.
Aphrodisias was a small city in Caria, Asia Minor. It is located near the modern village of Geyre, Turkey, about 230 km from Izmir.
Aphrodisias was named after Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of Love, who had here her unique cult image, the Aphrodite of Aphrodisias.
The city was built near a marble quarry that was extensively exploited in the Hellenistic and Roman periods, and sculptors in marble from Aphrodisias became famous in the Roman world.
Many examples of statuary have been unearthed in Aphrodisias, and some representations of the Aphrodite of Aphrodisias also survive from other parts of the Roman world. 　
Source:Xinhua