Taş Tepeler / Ayanlar / The Possible Leopard-Head Fragment from Ayanlar
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This possible leopard-head fragment is a promising Ayanlar research lead and should be presented as possible until source, image, and context details are stronger. Older notes mention a possible leopard-head sculpture fragment.
Fragment of a sculpture depicting the head of a leopard, from Ayanlar Höyük — front and reverse.
2017 Bahattin Celik, Fragment of sculpturedepicting the head of a leopard from Ayanlar Höyük, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Possible leopard-head sculpture fragment reported in older notes. The animal identification remains a source-review issue. The object should not be promoted as confirmed excavated evidence yet.
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