Karahan Tepe Structure Profile
Structure AA
Structure AA is a shallow bedrock-cut room at Karahan Tepe with a long west bench, steps, small pits, a snake engraving, a fox engraving, a niche, and fill-cover evidence.
At a glance
- Site
- Karahan Tepe
- Structure
- Structure AA
- Known For
- The Snake Bench Room
What you're looking at
Karul 2021 describes Structure AA as about 8.5 x 7 m and about 1.1 m deep, with a long bench, steps, small pits, animal imagery, a northern pit, and a stone cover over the filled structure.
Why it matters
- About 8.5 x 7 m
- Shallow bedrock-cut room
- Image/figure locator for AA snake and fox imagery
- Shallow bedrock room
- West bench and steps
- Snake on the bench
- Fox beneath the stairs and niche
- Pits and fill cover
What to notice first
- Shallow bedrock room
- West bench and steps
- Snake on the bench
- Fox beneath the stairs and niche
- Pits and fill cover
Research layer Karahan notes
- Use reported wording where exact loci, phase, 2025 details, or object metadata remain open.
- Do not turn architecture, channels, sculpture, or fill evidence into one settled ritual function.
- Use AA as a compact architecture-and-animal-imagery context. Do not treat the snake and fox as a decoded myth.
- KHT-CITE-STRUCTURE-AA-001
- Evidence note
- structure-section-ready-for-profile-integration
- expandable-ready
- Canonical source object for Karul 2021
- Image/figure locator for AA snake and fox imagery
- Clean source card for AA structure note as internal synthesis only
- Move to BH formal-source search next, because BH has strong reported dimensions, vessel, platform, channel, burning, and broken pillars, but still needs formal plan and locus support.
- Detailed evidence notes remain available for deeper review.