The ancient city of Parion lies on the coast of the Dardanelles in Turkey and is blessed with two natural harbours; it thus sits in an extremely important geopolitical location. The city experienced a golden age in the imperial Roman period as a religious and cultural centre. In 2006 a terracotta figure mould was found on the surface in the vicinity of Taşkule. The mould produces an Apollo figure. . According to Strabo and Apollon Aktaios legend seen on the local coins dated to 165-160 BC, the existence of an Apollo cult at Parion is known. In addition to its important association with the cult of Apollo at Parion, the mould also offers some information about ceramic production in the city. No other evidence related to the production of ceramic or terracotta figures has been discovered since excavations commenced in 2005. The mould is also stylistically important. The stylistic features indicate a date in the late Classical period. On the basis of its iconography and stylistic features, the figure may represent Apollo Patroos.

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.