Karahan Tepe Structure Profile

Structure AO

Structure AO is reported as a small room around Structure AD, with a stone-paved floor, grinding-related stones, a phallic-shaped grinding tool, and a floor slab showing a running wild donkey.

Structure AO visual reference
Visual reference for orientation. Use source images only when rights are clear.

At a glance

Site
Karahan Tepe
Structure
Structure AO
Known For
The Donkey Floor Room

What you're looking at

AO is useful because it brings floor, tool, and animal-image evidence into one small reported room. Stone Mounds is the direct source. Checked formal extracts do not yet confirm the exact plan, floor locus, object numbers, tool counts, stratigraphy, or function.

Why it matters

  • Domestic unit around AD
  • Running wild donkey floor slab
  • Grinding stones and body-shaped tool
  • Stone-paved floor
  • Grinding-related stones
  • Phallic-shaped grinding tool
  • Formal excavation source for AO plan, dimensions, loci, and floor context
  • Object/catalog record for the running wild donkey slab

What to notice first

  • Domestic unit around AD
  • Stone-paved floor
  • Running wild donkey floor slab
  • Grinding-related stones
  • Phallic-shaped grinding tool
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 AO as a reported floor-and-work room. Do not call it a kitchen, ritual floor, domestication record, fertility symbol, or unified symbolic program as fact.
  • The AO Structure and the Stone Slab with a Running Wild Donkey Figure section
  • AO section; internal locator card KHT-CITE-DONKEY-SLAB-001
  • AO section; internal locator cites Stone Mounds lines 45-51
  • KHT-2025-AO / KHT-CITE-DONKEY-SLAB-001
  • AO section
  • KHT-HUMAN-AO-PHALLIC-GRINDING-TOOL
  • KHT-AO-EVID-001 through KHT-AO-EVID-005
  • structure-section-ready-for-profile-integration
  • expandable-ready with caveats
  • Formal excavation source for AO plan, dimensions, loci, and floor context
  • Object/catalog record for the running wild donkey slab
  • Image/figure rights records for AO structure and donkey slab
  • Move to AZ formal-source handcheck next, because AZ has the next strongest domestic-special overlap claim: a human-faced pillar, stone-paved floor, benches, grinding stones, and small T-shaped pillars need the same clean source split.
  • Detailed evidence notes remain available for deeper review.
Evidence behind this evidence layer

Stable evidence

  • Structure AO is reported as a small room around Structure AD, with a stone-paved floor, grinding-related stones, a phallic-shaped grinding tool, and a floor slab showing a running wild donkey.
  • Domestic unit around AD
  • Running wild donkey floor slab
  • Grinding stones and body-shaped tool

Where it comes from

  • The AO Structure and the Stone Slab with a Running Wild Donkey Figure section
  • AO section; internal locator card KHT-CITE-DONKEY-SLAB-001
  • AO section; internal locator cites Stone Mounds lines 45-51
  • KHT-2025-AO / KHT-CITE-DONKEY-SLAB-001
  • AO section

Limits

  • 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 AO as a reported floor-and-work room. Do not call it a kitchen, ritual floor, domestication record, fertility symbol, or unified symbolic program as fact.
  • Physical observations, interpretation, and visitor shorthand are kept separate.

What could change

  • structure-section-ready-for-profile-integration
  • expandable-ready with caveats
  • Formal excavation source for AO plan, dimensions, loci, and floor context
  • Object/catalog record for the running wild donkey slab

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