When we look back upon man's long past, the following question occurs: how and by what processes has this being, which we call man, come to be what be is to-day? It is only through a long and gradual process of many hundreds of thousand years, subsequent to a long biological evolution, that this living organism called Man has become man in the modern, cultural sense of the word. This means that, in the life-time of man as a species, an evolution in the cultural sense of the word has been added to the biological one: the transition from a man-like being to one that can truely be called man, the emergence of cultural elements juxtaposed to the biological ones and in time gaining in importance; that is what we bere, to-day, mean by culture history.

The object is a group consisting a figurine of a man playing a flute at the right side, and the head of Cybele, which was sold to Archaeological Museums of Istanbul in 1966 by an Antiquarian and said to be found somewhere in the neighbourhoud of Eskişehir. The birth and growth of the Phyrgian music is attributed to one the Cybele's divine powers. Corybantes and Curetes who accompany Cybele by playing the seven stringed kithara and the double flute are known as the creators of this music and its instruments. Dimentions: The height of the head: 8.2 cm. The height of the male figurine: 9.5 cm The lenght of the base: 11.9 cm. The width of the base: 6 cm. The height of the base: 3.1 cm. The statuette is made of dark creamy coloured clay poured to a hollow model. Cybele's polos is almost compeletely ruined. It is restored below the neck. The head and the neck is remaining The head and the figurine at the right is worked in plastic. Of the figurine which must be at the left side, only the footprints can be seen. The group is placed on a rectangular base. The goddess is represented frontally. The glamour and the greatness of Cybele can be realized from the few traces of her polos. There are some traces of the polos on the upper part and below them, there is a garland of leaves in the shape of a crown.