Göbekli Tepe Object Profile

The Miniature Mask from Enclosure C

This small mask-like object is one of Göbekli Tepe's strongest portable human-face leads, but its exact role should remain open.

Quick Facts

D44 is a 4.5 cm miniature flint-cortex mask found in Area L9-87, Locus 116.1, next to the eastern central pillar of Building C.

D44 is a 4.5 cm miniature flint-cortex mask found in Area L9-87, Locus 116.1, next to the eastern central pillar of Building C.
D44 is small, but important. It links Enclosure C to Göbekli Tepe's wider pattern of miniature masks and mask-like faces found in building fills near central pillars. It should support a careful masks-near-pillars story, while its exact ritual meaning stays open.
The object is catalogued as D44 in Dietrich et al. 2019.
It is described as a miniature mask.
The material is flint cortex.
Height is given as 4.5 cm.
It was found in Area L9-87, Locus 116.1.

D44 is a 4.5 cm miniature flint-cortex mask found in Area L9-87, Locus 116.1, next to the eastern central pillar of Building C.
D44 is small, but important. It links Enclosure C to Göbekli Tepe's wider pattern of miniature masks and mask-like faces found in building fills near central pillars. It should support a careful masks-near-pillars story, while its exact ritual meaning stays open.
D44 as a tiny flint-cortex mask found next to Building C's eastern central pillar
relationship to broader masks-near-pillars story

Use reported wording where exact locus, phase, function, species, image rights, or restoration details remain open.
Keep object description, placement, motif identification, and interpretation separate unless the source explicitly joins them.
Enclosure D clay mask
D12 miniature mask from Building D
D32 miniature mask next to Pillar 51 in Building H
A01 large mask
generic mask symbolism
all masks at Göbekli Tepe
mask use as worn costume
proof of masquerade

Which exact source image or excavation figure should be used when public image rights are cleared?

D44 is a 4.5 cm miniature flint-cortex mask found in Area L9-87, Locus 116.1, next to the eastern central pillar of Building C.
This small mask-like object is one of Göbekli Tepe's strongest portable human-face leads,.
D44 is small, but important. It links Enclosure C to Göbekli Tepe's wider pattern of miniature masks and mask-like faces found in building fills near central pillars. It should support a careful masks-near-pillars story, while its exact ritual meaning stays open.
The object is catalogued as D44 in Dietrich et al. 2019.

Use reported wording where exact locus, phase, function, species, image rights, or restoration details remain open.
Keep object description, placement, motif identification, and interpretation separate unless the source explicitly joins them.
Enclosure D clay mask
D12 miniature mask from Building D

Which exact source image or excavation figure should be used when public image rights are cleared?
source refs
lineage
exact locus