Taş Tepeler

Göbekli Tepe / The painted boar

Discovery · Painted sculpture

The painted boar

A wild boar sculpture that still carries traces of paint.

In one line

A carved wild boar from Göbekli Tepe was found with surviving traces of pigment — rare evidence that the site's sculptures were once painted, not left as bare stone.

What it relates to

Painted wild boar sculpture · Animal imagery · Special building context

See it for yourself

We run small-group and private tours to Göbekli Tepe and across the Taş Tepeler landscape.

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