Scene of water fowl
Painted plaster ornament, Çatalhöyük, 6000 BC
The scene comprises a pair of cranes - which no longer live in the Konya plane - standing opposite each other and two wild donkeys. The donkeys’ backs are depicted with a black contour line and their heads are shown turned transversely. To the right above the water fowls is shown a wild boar. The head of one of the birds, applied over a cream ground has been destroyed