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Urfa Man | Göbeklitepe Building D replica | Neolithic

Urfa Man

One quickly arrives in rooms showing finds from Göbekli Tepe, but first there is the oldest full-size statue of a man, from Urfa itself. I gave it a sub-gallery.

The Urfa Statue is the oldest known, life-sized statue to have survived intact into the present. It was unearthed in the mid-1990s, below the Old City of Urfa, just to the north of Balıklığöl, in the area of a large Pre-Pottery Neolithic settlement. The existence of this settlement is testified by observations of so-called “terrazzo floors” belonging to Pre-Pottery Neolithic houses and characteristic flint tools from this period.
The limestone statue stands 1.80 metres tall and has large eye sockets which are filled with black obsidian eyes. The statue is depicted with hands folded in front and naked, except for the V-shaped lines resembling a necklace. The lower section of the statue has been sculpted as a U-form, so as to fit into a socket.
The statue sometimes is named Urfa Man, or even Urfa Snowman.
I add a few pictures from the old museum, as they show more of its side.
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