Sefertepe Structure Profile
Paired human face platform
Two human face reliefs associated with a platform made from four limestone blocks.
At a glance
- Site
- Sefertepe
- Structure
- Paired human face platform
- Known For
- image feature
What you're looking at
Two human face reliefs associated with a platform made from four limestone blocks.
Why it matters
- Two human face reliefs associated with a platform made from four limestone blocks.
- Faces carved on front surfaces of four limestone blocks; faces oriented north; one high relief and one lower/partial relief in current records.
- Locator: HeritageDaily 2025 / Güldoğan explanation; Türkiye Today 2025; Stone Mounds 2025.
- Locator status: partially located
- Context type: image feature
- Primary source: Stone Mounds 2025 Sefertepe season
- Open: Exact structure ID, dimensions, whether related to skull room or separate ceremonial platform.
What to notice first
- Faces carved on front surfaces of four limestone blocks
- faces oriented north
- one high relief and one lower/partial relief in current records.
Research layer Sefertepe notes
- Keep Sefertepe count layers separate: 22, 31, 8, 4, 7, and the isolated east-facing skull are not automatically the same claim.
- Do not turn skull selection, human faces, beads, or animal imagery into one settled ritual story.
- Use official, Karul et al. 2025, Türkiye Today, and Stone Mounds reporting as source layers with different maturity.
- Treat field-note orientation and exact room claims as leads until publication-level plans confirm them.
- Use rights-safe fallback diagrams unless official or third-party image permissions are cleared.
- Exact structure ID, dimensions, whether related to skull room or separate ceremonial platform.
- HeritageDaily 2025 human face reliefs report
- Türkiye Today 2025 carved faces / bead report
- Stone Mounds 2025 Sefertepe season
- Official Taş Tepeler Sefertepe page
- Karul et al. 2025 Sefertepe section
- Türkiye Today / Anadolu Ajansı 2025 Sefertepe reports
- Stone Mounds 2025 Sefertepe season report
- Exact structure ID, dimensions, whether related to skull room or separate ceremonial platform.
- Which skull counts represent distinct deposits, later additions, or different count methods?
- Which features belong to exact rooms, loci, phases, and publication figures?
- How do the face platform, cut pits, and skull-room evidence relate spatially?
- Which object images can be used publicly after rights review?
- Site evidence notes
- Use the structure-context matrix, mortuary matrix, object matrix, evidence locator pass, and image verification file for deeper review.
- Detailed evidence notes remain available for deeper review.
Source links references
- Stone Mounds 2025 Sefertepe season