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Enclosure E / Rock Temple

Enclosure E is different from the famous standing-pillar buildings because its strongest preserved evidence is cut into the bedrock itself. Two rock pedestals with oval holes are interpreted as the bases for central pillars that no longer survive, an interpretation strengthened by comparison with Enclosures C and D.

Site: Göbekli TepeStructure: Enclosure E / Rock Temple
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 E, often called the Rock Temple, is a bedrock-cut Göbekli Tepe structure whose clearest preserved evidence is a pair of rock pedestals for now-lost central pillars.

What to notice

The formal source describes a bedrock-cut structure now numbered Enclosure E, but the compact packet should avoid presenting a full plan until plan/figure recovery is completed. A structure referred to as the rock temple is numbered Enclosure E in the formal source. The structure is cut out of natural bedrock. It has two pedestals with oval tub-shaped holes. The pedestals were identified as bases for now-lost central pillars. The reconstructed function of the holes is supported by later comparison with Enclosures C and D, where central-pillar pairs were found in situ.

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Last reviewed 21 July 2026. Something wrong?