Hummus-Sana
The Criminal Security Branch in Homs today found artifacts buried in agricultural land in the village of “Al-Ghantou” that a member of the armed terrorist groups had buried before the withdrawal of these groups from that area.
In a statement, SANA received a copy of it, the Ministry of Interior stated that after receiving information to the branch about the presence of artifacts buried in agricultural land, and by inspecting the place and digging in the intended land, a group of artifacts and pieces of glass, metal and pottery were found suspected of being archaeological.
The ministry indicated that technical expertise was conducted on these pieces by the Directorate of Antiquities and Museums in Homs to show that the seized pieces consisted of “two broken glass vessels of a large size and ten glass vessels, all of which date back to the Byzantine period and eleven glass vessels of various shapes small and some of them broken, all of which are antique in addition To ancient pottery vessels with colored drawings dating back to the Islamic period and a small part of an antique pipe dating back to the period of the Ottoman occupation.
In addition, a group of non-artifacts was seized consisting of a metal mold number two for a statue of a woman and four metal molds representing the heads of three men and a woman, a metal mask of a bearded man, a metal lamp with a statue of a human face, a cup of plaster with a fist resembling a bull's head, a small pot of pottery and a statue of metal It has a wild animal, a metal scale pan, a copper rectangular metal shape with decorations of warriors, a small statue of a warrior holding a shield in his hand, a copper statue of a naked child, and a metal vessel missing from the lower section.
The Ministry confirmed that all the seized antique and non-archaeological pieces were handed over to the Homs Museum of Antiquities, indicating that the search is still going on for the hidden person who buried these pieces until his arrest and submission to the competent court.