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The Sayburç Relief: Humans, Leopards, and a Bull

The Sayburç relief is the site's most famous object: a carved bench panel with two humans, two leopards, and a bull inside the northern communal building. Five side-by-side figures carved on the inner face of the bench in the northern communal building.

Site: Sayburç
The Sayburç bench relief — the full scene (replica).

The Sayburç bench relief — the full scene (replica). — Wikimedia Commons

What's actually there

Dimensions: 0.7-0.9 m high x 3.7 m long leopard-human-leopard scene bull-human scene East leopard Principal high-relief male Second squatting male West leopard Details

What to notice

What's carved on it

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Last reviewed 21 July 2026. Something wrong?