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Enclosure B

Enclosure B is one of Göbekli Tepe's major round buildings. It has two central pillars, Pillars 9 and 10, both marked by fox imagery. Between them, excavators found a terrazzo floor, an embedded stone bowl, and a small channel. A porthole stone lay south of the central pillars, but its original placement remains uncertain.

Site: Göbekli TepeStructure: Enclosure B
The excavated enclosures of Göbekli Tepe.

Guérin Nicolas, Göbekli Tepe - Türkei 2011 174, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The excavated enclosures of Göbekli Tepe. — Wikimedia Commons

What's actually there

Enclosure B is a round Göbekli Tepe monumental building known for its central fox pillars, terrazzo floor, embedded bowl/channel feature, and an unresolved porthole-stone context.

What to notice

Two central pillars and eight surrounding ring-wall pillars were known in the main source overview. The central pillars are Pillars 9 and 10. Both central pillars carry fox imagery. A terrazzo floor was exposed between the central pillars. A stone bowl was embedded in the terrazzo in front of Pillar 9. A small channel ran toward the bowl.

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Last reviewed 21 July 2026. Something wrong?