Mount Spil

Mount Spil, the historical Mount Sipylus, is a mountain rich in legends and history in Manisa Province, Turkey, in what used to be the heartland of the Lydians and what is now Turkey's Aegean Region. Its summit towers over the contemporary town of Manisa as well as over the road between Izmir and Manisa. The contiguous mass of Mount Yamanlar, also overlooking the Gulf of Izmir, has frequently been taken into consideration as an extension of Mount Sipylus massif with which it stocks a good deal records, even though it is sincerely an extinct volcano and a distinct geographical formation.

The Manisa comfort, a complete faced statue carved into a cliff face is discovered near Mount Sipylus, numerous kilometers east of Manisa. It is historically diagnosed as Cybele and dated to the late-Hittite or Luwian period in late 2nd millennium BCE. The sculpture is referred to as Tai Suret in Turkish and once in a while called such additionally in worldwide literature. The mountain turned into considered a favorite haunt of the mom goddess. According to an antique myth the sculpture changed into carved by Broteas, Tantalus' unpleasant son.