{"id":7499,"date":"2019-03-20T15:59:45","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T14:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/the-tepe-telegrams\/?p=7499"},"modified":"2019-05-27T22:26:55","modified_gmt":"2019-05-27T20:26:55","slug":"a-rather-odd-figure-the-so-called-kilisik-sculpture-from-adiyaman-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/the-tepe-telegrams\/2019\/03\/20\/a-rather-odd-figure-the-so-called-kilisik-sculpture-from-adiyaman-turkey\/","title":{"rendered":"A rather odd figure: The so-called Kilisik Sculpture from Ad\u0131yaman, Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"

The apparently anthropomorphic appearance and meaning of (at least some of) the T-shaped pillars known from G\u00f6bekli Tepe, Neval\u0131 \u00c7ori (and likely many of the other sites with similar pillars<\/a> in the area too) could have been convincingly explained by a number of very characteristic details depicted in reliefs on these pillars. Among them arms and hands as well as stola-like garments and, in the case of G\u00f6bekli Tepe’s Pillars 18 and 31 (in Building D), even belts and loincloths.<\/p>\n

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The characteristic T-pillars can be recognized as larger-than-life human(-like) sculptures due to a number of specific elements. (Illustration: J. Notroff)<\/p><\/div>\n

It was the discovery of these peculiar new type of T-shaped pillars, for the first time excavated in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic settlement of Neval\u0131 \u00c7ori on the middle Euphrates (like G\u00f6bekli Tepe\u00a0in \u015eanl\u0131urfa Province) in the 1980s [external link]<\/a>, which also shed new light onto another find – until then rather considered an archaeological oddity – of a unique piece of sculpture: The so-called Kilisik Sculpture<\/em> found in 1965 near Ad\u0131yaman in southeastern Turkey.<\/p>\n\n\t\t