Pillar 2 is assigned to Enclosure A; Enclosure A canonical parent remains to be built. Pillar 2 is described as one of the two central pillars of Enclosure A. Pillar 2 is described with a right-side vertical sequence of bull, fox, and crane motifs.
What to notice
Pillar 2 is a Enclosure A pillar at Göbekli Tepe with bull/aurochs, fox, crane, and bucranium imagery, plus a crucial source caution that it may be in a secondary position. Pillar 2 matters because it gives us another Göbekli example of crane imagery with strangely human-like legs, letting us compare it against Pillar 33 instead of treating the crane problem as a one-off oddity. Pillar 2 is assigned to Enclosure A; Enclosure A canonical parent remains to be built. Pillar 2 is described as one of the two central pillars of Enclosure A. Pillar 2 is described with a right-side vertical sequence of bull, fox, and crane motifs. A Tepe Telegrams/DAI caption describes Pillar 2 reliefs as aurochs, fox, and crane. Evidence
What's carved on it
- crane motif
- bucranium motif