Honoured, beheaded and buried. A new deposit of statues from Amastris

The paper will focus on a discussion of an important deposit of statues, unearthed during rescue excavations conducted by the Amasra Museum in 1993, and its value as testimony of the changing urban landscape of Amastris in late antiquity. It will first examine the age of the statues, then the composition and the date of the deposit, and, finally, its spatial setting within the city. By contextualising this material and its contact within the urban development of Amastris, the article aims to contribute to a better understanding of regional dynamics in northern Anatolia.