Sefertepe Structure Profile
Small Finds And Symbolic Objects
Sefertepe's small finds include beads, a double-faced bead, a worked limestone object with circles, a boar image on a grinding stone, a leopard figurine, and tool assemblages.
At a glance
- Site
- Sefertepe
- Structure
- Small Finds And Symbolic Objects
- Known For
- Beads, worked stone, animal imagery, and tools
What you're looking at
The object evidence should be read as a site-level assemblage until exact findspots, catalog numbers, and figure-level metadata are published.
Why it matters
- Beads are the dominant symbolic small-find group.
- A double-faced anthropomorphic bead is reported in 2025 coverage.
- A worked limestone/tuff object has 13 circles on each face.
- A juvenile wild boar is reported on a heavily used grinding stone.
- A leopard figurine is highlighted in the 2025 Sefertepe source layer.
- Exact findspots and catalog metadata remain open for several objects.
- Use fallback diagrams unless public image rights are cleared.
What to notice first
- Bead assemblage
- Double-faced anthropomorphic bead
- Worked limestone/tuff object with circles
- Juvenile wild boar on grinding stone
- Leopard figurine
- Lithic, ground-stone, and bone tool assemblage
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.
- 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.
Source links references
- Taş Tepeler Sefertepe official page
- Karul et al. 2025, Sefertepe section, pp. 80-82, Figs. 20-22
- Stone Mounds 2025 Sefertepe season