Karahan Tepe Structure Profile
Structure AZ
Structure AZ is reported as a domestic building on Karahan Tepe's Western Terrace, with stone paving, plastered benches, grinding stones, T-shaped pillars, and a human-faced T-shaped pillar announced in 2025.
At a glance
- Site
- Karahan Tepe
- Structure
- Structure AZ
- Known For
- The Human-Faced Pillar House
What you're looking at
An official 2025 announcement supports the core human-faced T-shaped pillar find at Karahantepe. Project reporting places that find in AZ and describes a domestic building with a stone-paved floor, plastered benches, grinding stones, and a small T-shaped pillar group. The exact locus, pillar ID, plan, object metadata, and meaning still need formal publication.
Why it matters
- Domestic building reported
- Human-faced T-pillar
- Stone floor, benches, and grinding stones
- Domestic building on the Western Terrace
- Stone floor and plastered benches
- T-shaped pillar group
- Object/catalog record for the human-faced T-shaped pillar
- Formal excavation source for AZ plan, dimensions, loci, and pillar metadata
What to notice first
- Domestic building on the Western Terrace
- Stone floor and plastered benches
- T-shaped pillar group
- Human-faced T-shaped pillar
- Grinding stones
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 AZ as a reported human-faced pillar and domestic-context structure. Do not claim that every T-shaped pillar is human, divine, ancestral, ritual, or a portrait.
- AZ section; internal locator card KHT-CITE-HUMAN-FACED-T-PILLAR-001
- AZ section
- Ministry announcement dated 2025-10-06; internal locator cites Ministry lines 38-55
- KHT-HUMAN-AZ-FACED-PILLAR
- KHT-CITE-HUMAN-FACED-T-PILLAR-001
- structure-section-ready-for-profile-integration
- expandable-ready with caveats
- Formal excavation source for AZ plan, dimensions, loci, and pillar metadata
- Object/catalog record for the human-faced T-shaped pillar
- Image/figure rights records for Ministry, AA, and Stone Mounds images
- Create a Karahan structure-readiness matrix next, because AB, AD, AA, AC, BF, AO, AZ, BH, and BD now need one clear table showing profile readiness, source strength, child-object coverage, image status, and remaining formal gaps.
- Detailed evidence notes remain available for deeper review.