Image: Şanlıurfa Müzesi Göbeklitepe D Tapınağı

Description: (translation) Göbeklitepe consists of buildings with a diameter of 30 meters and round and oval plan and georadar scans. The excavations of one of them were completed and the others were determined by geomagnetic and georadar methods. The results obtained with these measurements and excavations show that Göbeklitepe is a large meeting place of 11,500 years ago and it is covered with monumental buildings built for ceremonial purposes, not places for daily life. Among these monumental buildings, the most magnificent and preserved temple is the d temple. Temple D is dated to the first phase of the Göbeklitepe ruins (9500-8500 BC). In the center of the temple, with heights up to 6 meters and weights up to 30 tons; 12 steles were placed in the style of the center stelae. In the central steles, it is indisputable that the tiki post is depicted as the arm, hand, belt and garment, and the T steles symbolize the human or human-like saints. There are many animal depictions on the T steles in this temple. These are wild boars, wild oxen, donkeys gazelles, cranes, storks, ibis, ducks and feline as well as a large figure network of snakes and foxes are weighted.
Title: Şanlıurfa Müzesi Göbeklitepe D Tapınağı
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