in size and therefore are miniature objects far smaller than a life-size depiction most of the heads and masks seem to have been purposefully placed inside the fill of the site often close to the central pillars number three the human and animal figurine sometimes it's the small things that can really be amazing and this figurine measuring just NUMBER_TOKEN centimeters by NUMBER_TOKEN by NUMBER_TOKEN was a surface find from the hilltop we see a person sitting on an unknown object with legs dragged towards the body between his legs is an erect phallus and we can see a quadruped animal sitting on the person's left shoulder just about all of the stone statues and artifacts of gobekli tepe are in fact made of limestone but this one is made of green nephrite maybe it was a pendant maybe it was once fixed to a support but it is a unique and unusual find to get beckley tepe number four the unfinished t-shaped pillar many of you will have seen the unfinished pillar of carahan tepe but not everyone knows there is an unfinished t-shaped pillar in the quarry of gobekli tepe today it's badly eroded is NUMBER_TOKEN metres long and has a volume of around NUMBER_TOKEN meters cubed and you can see it on this picture partly cut from the bedrock with quebec tepe in the background number five stone buttons beads and buttons are found right across tuscapella but you could easily mistake the buttons at gobekli tepe with more modern examples they are often made from green stone maybe nephrite they were likely used on the person and they do appear frequently across the site the craftsmanship of these tiny items is beautiful and astonishing some of which are perfectly shaped with the smallest perfect drill hole running through them number six the human headstone many of us have seen the famous vulture stone or pillar NUMBER_TOKEN of quebec tepe but not everyone knows there is another vulture depicted at the site this is taken from enclosure d the best preserved building from quebec tepe's oldest phase archaeologists know that during the backfilling of the enclosures certain objects were deliberately placed next to the pillars and immediately to the north of pillar NUMBER_TOKEN which is one of the enclosures central pillars is this stone slab we can see a large predator which some say is a hyena we see a vulture with a very pronounced beak and wings outspread above the hyena are the legs of another animal and then what looks like a human head clearly detached from the body whether this head is part of a narrative scene with the animals is unclear but this is a unique find at gobekli tepe number NUMBER_TOKEN the guarding beast porthole stone this is one of my favorite finds of gobekli tepe a monumental porthole stone with two openings and measuring three meters by three as you can see it is richly decorated with three half a meter long sculptures of quadrupeds identified as a bull a ram and a wildcat you can also see a NUMBER_TOKEN meter long snake in high relief cup marks also surround the windows when found the stone was not in situ so we don't know its original context but it was clearly part of once important building whose entrance had to be guarded
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