Short one today, but it made me happy: As part of a restoration project, a replica of the marble statue of Plouton, the Ouranic incarnation of Hades, and his three-headed dog Kerberos has been placed in its original place in the Gate of Hell in Pamukkale’s ancient city of Hierapolis. The statue is known to have been there in ancient times.


Hierapolis (Ἱεράπολις, "Holy City") was an ancient city located on hot springs in classical Phrygia in southwestern Anatolia. Its ruins are adjacent to modern Pamukkale in Turkey and currently comprise an archaeological museum designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. 

The so-called "Gate of Hell" is not a gate as such, it's a grotto near the Ploutonium which was sacred to Plouton and which could be quite deadly, especially for birds.