Sayburç · Structure
A fully excavated domestic building in Sayburç's southern residential area, notable for a central T-pillar carved with human features inside an otherwise ordinary house.
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Structure BB is reported as a fully excavated dwelling in the southern residential area of Sayburç. It has a bedrock floor, a bench, a niche and a hearth, along with grinding stones and pestles in food-preparation contexts — the ordinary equipment of a lived-in house. Its distinguishing feature is a central T-shaped pillar carved with human features, standing inside the domestic space.
That detail matters for how Sayburç is read. Özdoğan notes that the same monolithic pillars appear in both domestic and communal buildings at the site, with houses typically holding a single stone and public buildings arranging one or two prominently at the centre. Structure BB is the clearest domestic example of that overlap — a reminder that at Sayburç the symbolic and the everyday were not kept in separate places. Details here come from preliminary reporting and may be refined in fuller publication.
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The most telling thing about BB is that a carved, human-featured T-pillar — the kind of stone usually associated with communal 'special' buildings — stands inside an ordinary dwelling. Özdoğan reads this overlap as evidence that at Sayburç symbolic and everyday life were not kept in separate architectural worlds. This is interpretation built on the observed find, not a settled meaning for the pillar itself.
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