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Structure AO

Structure AO is reported as a small room around Structure AD, with a stone-paved floor, grinding-related stones, a phallic-shaped grinding tool, and a floor slab showing a running wild donkey.

Site: Karahan TepeStructure: Structure AOKnown For: The Donkey Floor Room
Karahan Tepe. (Site view; not a photograph of this find.)

Karahan Tepe. (Site view; not a photograph of this find.)

Frantisek Trampota, Karahan Tepe overview, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

What's actually there

AO is useful because it brings floor, tool, and animal-image evidence into one small reported room. Stone Mounds is the direct source. Checked formal extracts do not yet confirm the exact plan, floor locus, object numbers, tool counts, stratigraphy, or function.

What to notice

Domestic unit around AD Running wild donkey floor slab Grinding stones and body-shaped tool Stone-paved floor Grinding-related stones Phallic-shaped grinding tool Formal excavation source for AO plan, dimensions, loci, and floor context Object/catalog record for the running wild donkey slab

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Last reviewed 21 July 2026. Something wrong?