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# Twenty-tonne Corinthian capital found during excavations at Cyzicus in Turkey
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/arkheologi-vozle-vnushitelnoi-20-tonnoi-kapiteli-korinfskogo-ordera-na-meste-raskopok-v-kizikose-na-zapade-sovremennoi-turtsii/
- Published: 2021-06-09T17:52:15.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-02T18:53:31.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: NB!, Archaeology, Architecture, The East, Observations

Archaeologists beside an imposing 20-tonne Corinthian capital at the excavation site in Cyzicus, in the west of modern Turkey. If the capital crowning the column is 2.5 metres high and 1.9 metres in diameter, can you imagine how large the column itself must have been?