Karahan Tepe Structure Profile

Structure BD

Structure BD is reported as a large rectangular Western Terrace building with continuous benches, twelve T-shaped pillars, four collapsed central pillars, sculpture associations, and nearby everyday-work evidence.

Structure BD visual reference
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At a glance

Site
Karahan Tepe
Structure
Structure BD
Known For
The Western Terrace Building

What you're looking at

Stone Mounds reports BD as a monumental rectangular building with slightly rounded corners, benches, symmetrically placed T-shaped pillars, twelve total pillars, and four central pillars collapsed in antiquity. Formal sources describe a likely related 15.5 x 15.5 m upper west-slope public building with seated human and griffon vulture sculpture context, but the checked formal text does not explicitly print the BD label.

Why it matters

  • Large Western Terrace building
  • Twelve T-shaped pillars
  • Sculpture links under review
  • Monumental rectangular building
  • Continuous benches
  • Four collapsed central pillars
  • Human sculpture associations
  • Vulture sculpture and terrace context

What to notice first

  • Monumental rectangular building
  • Continuous benches
  • Twelve T-shaped pillars
  • Four collapsed central pillars
  • Human sculpture associations
  • Vulture sculpture and terrace context
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 BD as a reported monumental building first. Keep the seated human, basalt human, and griffon vulture sculptures as association evidence until formal findspots and phases are published.
  • Section 'The BD Structure: A Monumental Rectangular Building on the Western Terrace'
  • BD section
  • article p. 75; PDF extract page 23; Figure 13 caption
  • Rows KHT-BD-SCULPTURE-SEATED-HUMAN-001 and KHT-BD-SCULPTURE-BASALT-HUMAN-001
  • Findspot gap map and blocked claims
  • structure-section-ready-for-profile-integration
  • expandable-ready with caveats
  • 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.
Evidence behind this evidence layer

Stable evidence

  • Stone Mounds reports BD as a monumental rectangular building with slightly rounded corners, benches, symmetrically placed T-shaped pillars, twelve total pillars, and four central pillars collapsed in antiquity. Formal sources describe a likely related 15.5 x 15.5 m upper west-slope public building with seated human and griffon vulture sculpture context, but the checked formal text does not explicitly print the BD label.
  • Structure BD is reported as a large rectangular Western Terrace building with continuous benches, twelve T-shaped pillars, four collapsed central pillars, sculpture associations, and nearby everyday-work evidence.
  • Large Western Terrace building
  • Sculpture links under review

Where it comes from

  • Section 'The BD Structure: A Monumental Rectangular Building on the Western Terrace'
  • BD section
  • article p. 75; PDF extract page 23; Figure 13 caption
  • Rows KHT-BD-SCULPTURE-SEATED-HUMAN-001 and KHT-BD-SCULPTURE-BASALT-HUMAN-001
  • Findspot gap map and blocked claims

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 BD as a reported monumental building first. Keep the seated human, basalt human, and griffon vulture sculptures as association evidence until formal findspots and phases are published.
  • Physical observations, interpretation, and visitor shorthand are kept separate.

What could change

  • structure-section-ready-for-profile-integration
  • expandable-ready with caveats
  • 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.

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