Medusa Mozaiği

The Medusa Mosaic is a floor mosaic in the odeon of the ancient city of Kibyra, in the Golhisar district of Burdur province, southwestern Turkey [1]. It depicts the mythological Medusa using the rare opus sectile technique with colorful marble pieces, making it one of the few surviving examples of this method worldwide [1] [2]. The odeon, unearthed in 2012 after three years of excavation, also served as the city's bouleterion (council house) [3] [4]. The mosaic is seasonally covered for winter protection and reopened each spring [1] [5]. Kibyra was added to the UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List in 2016 [4] [6].