Finally! Looks like the #Kilisik sculpture's getting some more regional context. 😉
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Photo of a large limestone sculpture on display in a museum. The sculpture consists of several human depictions "piled" on top of each other. Facial features seem mostly broken off.
But to return to our initial list of typological elements of the #Kilisik sculpture, there's one more noteworthy analogy:
3. Its composite character of a larger figure grabbing a smaller one by its head below again reminds of another peculiar find from Göbekli Tepe:
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Image of a giant T-pillar from Göbekli Tepe, the figure being the result of a textured 3D-scan.
1. With a height of about only 80 cm significatly smaller, the #Kilisik sculpture basically shares the rather abstract T-form of the much larger (up to 5.5 m high!) T-pillars from e.g. #GöbekliTepe, including the depiction of arms on the sides and hands above the belly.
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And although we do not know much about its original context, the #Kilisik sculpture could be considered a very special occurence among these #Neolithic depictions: apparently combining elements of various rather different types of already known #sculptures:
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Photo from the excavations at Göbekli Tepe, showing a view down into one of the monumental buildings with two large T-pillars in the centre and more in the surrounding circular wall.
Without any analogy the #Kilisik sculpture in its days was remarkable, but remained an oddity - and was largely forgotton.
Until first excavations at #NevaliCori and #GobekliTepe highlighted a completely novel form of #Neolithic sculpture: Pre-Pottery Neolithic T-Pillars.
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The #Kilisik sculpture's find history is quite interesting in itself, by the way:
Dug by a local farmer, the sculpture was then obtained by two archaeology students stumbling upon it during an excursion and finally brought to the Adiyaman Archaeological Museum.
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Photo overview with images of the so-called Kilisik sandstone sculpture, showing it in front, both sides, and back view. With its emphasised elongated head it looks very reminiscent to the Neolithic T-pillars from Göbekli Tepe and related sites.
But why am I telling all this? - Because there is *another* find, another type which early on helped me better seeing and understanding this human likeness. I am, of course, talking about the so-called #Kilisik sculpture found near #Adiyaman in Türkiye in the 1960s.
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3. Finally, the character of the #Kilisik sculpture combining a larger figure grabbing a smaller one by its head below, again reminds of the find of a peculiar #composite sculpture from #GobekliTepe:
www.dainst.blog/the-tepe-telegrams/2017/...
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1. With a height of about only 80 cm somewhat smaller, the #Kilisik sculpture shares the rather abstract T-form of the much larger, up to 5.5 m high T-pillars discovered e.g. at #GobekliTepe, including the depiction of arms on the sides and hands above the belly.
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Although we do not know much about its context, the #Kilisik sculpture could be considered a very special occurence among these #Neolithic depictions - since it seems to combine elements of three very different types of known #sculptures:
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Without any analogy, upon its discovery in the 1960s the #Kilisik sculpture remained a strange oddity and was largely forgotton.
Until excavations at #NevaliCori and #GobekliTepe in the 80s & 90s highlighted a previously unknown form of sculpture: The early Neolithic T-Pillars.
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Day 23 of #archaeology31: #interpretation.
Which in archaeology is constituted by cultural context & analogical comparison - within that context, allowing to understand even apparently enigmatic finds.
Like the #Kilisik statue from Adiyaman in...
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Is it a human? Is it a #Neolithic T-pillar? Is it a composite figure? - No, it's the Kilisik sculpture (... and thus maybe all of these).
"A rather odd figure: The so-called #Kilisik Sculpture from #Adıyaman,...
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Even more: The #Kilisik sculpture itself now can help establishing links between other types of contemporary representations, again increasing our understanding of how these might have been related.
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With ongoing research at #NevaliCori, #GobekliTepe, and other related sites our understanding of the complexity of early #Neolithic art has significantly grown - helping to understand formerly rather odd exceptional finds ... like the #Kilisik sculpture.
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Is it a human? Is it a T-pillar? Is it a composite figure? - No, it's the Kilisik sculpture (... and thus maybe all of these).
New on @TepeTelegrams: "A rather odd figure: The so-called #Kilisik Sculpture from #Adıyaman,...
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Owed rather unclear find circumstances there's not much literature about the #Kilisik sculpture, but H. Hauptmann give's a good overview in his "Frühneolithische Kultbilder in der Kommagene" (Wagner (ed.), Gottkönige am Euphrat, expanded new ed....
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And since you're apparently here for the #Kilisik sculpture, make sure to also have a look over there at the available 3D scan and additional info at @WWU_Muenster's Archaeological Museum!
westfalen.museum-digital.de/index.php
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And although we do not know much about its context, the #Kilisik sculpture could be considered a very special occurence among these #Neolithic depictions since it seems to combine elements of very different types of known #sculptures:
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Without any analogy the #Kilisik sculpture remained an oddity and was largely forgotton. Until the excavations at #NevaliCori and #GobekliTepe highlighted a completely new form of sculpture: The early Neolithic T-Pillars.
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