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Enclosure A

Enclosure A is not just another round stone building. It seems to sit near a change in architectural form: still part of Göbekli Tepe's older monumental world, but already looking more rectangular, more transitional, and harder to interpret because it is not fully excavated.

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Göbekli Tepe — the enclosures under their shelter. (Site view; not a photograph of this find.)

Rolf Cosar, Göbekli Tepe - 100525, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Göbekli Tepe — the enclosures under their shelter. (Site view; not a photograph of this find.) — Wikimedia Commons

What's actually there

Enclosure A is a partially excavated monumental Layer III building at Göbekli Tepe, important for its more rectangular/elongated plan, central Pillars 1 and 2, snake-dominant imagery, and Pillar 2's secondary-position problem.

What to notice

Sources describe Enclosure A as more rectangular/elongated than round and different from the other Layer III enclosures. Enclosure A is as a Göbekli Tepe Layer III monumental building. It was the first monumental building exposed in the southeastern depression. Its plan is described as more rectangular or elongated than round. It is only partially excavated in the cited architecture source. Pillars 1 and 2 form the central pillar pair.

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Last reviewed 21 July 2026. Something wrong?