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Göbekli Tepe is a c. 12,000-year-old archaeological site in Anatolia, Turkey. The deepest and oldest Layer III is also the most sophisticated with enclosures characterised by different thematic components and artistic representations.
This is pillar no. 43, the 'Vulture Stone.' On the left-hand side, a vulture is holding an orb or egg in an outstretched wing. Lower down there is a scorpion, and the imagery is further complicated by the depiction of a headless ithyphallic man.
This image was first published on Flickr.
Original image by Sue Fleckney. Uploaded by Ibolya Horvath, published on 08 December 2020 under the following license: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike. This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work even for commercial reasons, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms. Please note that content linked from this page may have different licensing terms.
Fleckney, S. (2020, December 08). Vulture Stone, Göbekli Tepe. World History Encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://www.ancient.eu/image/13200/
Fleckney, Sue. "Vulture Stone, Göbekli Tepe." World History Encyclopedia. Last modified December 08, 2020. https://www.ancient.eu/image/13200/.
Fleckney, Sue. "Vulture Stone, Göbekli Tepe." World History Encyclopedia. World History Encyclopedia, 08 Dec 2020. Web. 28 Feb 2021.
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