{"id":4857,"date":"2017-05-01T09:00:46","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T07:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tepetelegrams.wordpress.com\/?p=4857"},"modified":"2023-02-06T10:26:13","modified_gmt":"2023-02-06T09:26:13","slug":"buried-face-down-a-statue-from-goebekli-tepes-southwestern-hilltop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/the-tepe-telegrams\/2017\/05\/01\/buried-face-down-a-statue-from-goebekli-tepes-southwestern-hilltop\/","title":{"rendered":"Buried face-down. A statue from G\u00f6bekli Tepe’s southwestern hilltop"},"content":{"rendered":"

Starting from 2007 new excavation areas were opened at G\u00f6bekli Tepe\u00b4s southwestern hilltop. The aim was to get a better understanding of the architecture of the tell – would the stratigraphical situation from the southeastern excavation areas repeat here? And indeed, soon buildings characteristic for the younger Layer II appeared.<\/p>\n

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The sculpture of a standing person and its find spot at G\u00f6bekli Tepe’s southwestern hilltop (copyright DAI, photos D. Johannes, K. Schmidt, drawings excavation team).<\/p><\/div>\n

Many of the rectangular or subrectangular buildings discovered at G\u00f6bekli Tepe show evidence\u00a0of rebuilding, repairing or other modifications. One very large room, discovered in area L9-17, for instance was at some point in its life-cycle subdivided by two walls into one large approximately square central room and two adjacent smaller chambers. No entries to these chambers could be identified. Maybe access was possible through the roof, but this remains speculation. In the eastern chamber soon a pillar fragment was discovered, and, when excavation continued, just to the north of it an anthropomorphic sculpture.<\/p>\n

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Anthropomorphic sculpture found face-down in a room in the southwestern hilltop excavation areas at G\u00f6bekli Tepe (copyright DAI, photo D. Johannes).<\/p><\/div>\n

The sculpture was complete and lying face down. The deliberate deposition of sculptures next to pillars is a well-known phenomenon at G\u00f6bekli Tepe. The physical separation of the space the sculpture was found in from the rest of the room further strengthens the impression of an intentional placement.<\/p>\n

The 66 cm high image shows a standing person, with bent arms and hands brought together at the belly, not unlike the posture of the T-shaped pillars. The person is looking upwards and wearing a cap. Further details of the face and the frontside of the statue will become visible only after restoration, as a thick layer of sinter is covering them. The legs are not shown, instead the sculpture has a conical tap that allowed it to be set into the ground.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Starting from 2007 new excavation areas were opened at G\u00f6bekli Tepe\u00b4s southwestern hilltop. The aim was to get a better understanding of the architecture of the tell – would the stratigraphical situation from the southeastern excavation areas repeat here? And indeed, soon buildings characteristic for the younger Layer II appeared. Many of the rectangular or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":4888,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[8523,1260267,69608,76499],"class_list":["post-4857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-finds","tag-gobeklitepe","tag-iconography","tag-sculptures","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/the-tepe-telegrams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4857"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/the-tepe-telegrams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/the-tepe-telegrams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/the-tepe-telegrams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/the-tepe-telegrams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4857"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/the-tepe-telegrams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7235,"href":"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/the-tepe-telegrams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4857\/revisions\/7235"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/the-tepe-telegrams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/the-tepe-telegrams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/the-tepe-telegrams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/the-tepe-telegrams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}