Sefertepe Structure Profile

10-pillar set

Official page records 10 pillars: three T-shaped and seven quadrangular.

At a glance

Official page records 10 pillars: three T-shaped and seven quadrangular.

Official page records 10 pillars: three T-shaped and seven quadrangular.
One T-shaped pillar space excavated to the floor; east-facing face has relief and incised geometric decoration; pairs of quadrangular pillars appear opposite each other in two rooms.
Locator: Official page Pillars section, Fig. 4-5 for decorated T-pillar; Karul et al. 2025 Fig. 21 for rectangular pillars.
Locator status: partially located
Context type: pillar set
Primary source: Taş Tepeler Sefertepe official page
Supporting source: Karul et al. 2025, Sefertepe section, pp. 80-82, Figs. 20-22

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.
Taş Tepeler Sefertepe official page
Karul et al. 2025, Sefertepe section, pp. 80-82, Figs. 20-22
Official Taş Tepeler Sefertepe page
Karul et al. 2025 Sefertepe section
Türkiye Today / Anadolu Ajansı 2025 Sefertepe reports
Stone Mounds 2025 Sefertepe season report
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.

Evidence behind this evidence layer

Official page records 10 pillars: three T-shaped and seven quadrangular.
One T-shaped pillar space excavated to the floor; east-facing face has relief and incised geometric decoration; pairs of quadrangular pillars appear opposite each other in two rooms.
Locator: Official page Pillars section, Fig. 4-5 for decorated T-pillar; Karul et al. 2025 Fig. 21 for rectangular pillars.
Locator status: partially located

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.

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?

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