What is there
Structure CB is reported as an oval special building in the southern part of the settlement. The published description records seven T-shaped pillars set in front of the walls, probably raised on a bench, together with a central T-pillar — the pillar-and-bench arrangement that marks out communal, non-domestic buildings across the Taş Tepeler sites.
The building is only partially excavated, so its full plan, dimensions and any carved decoration are not yet established. On present evidence CB reads as a smaller southern counterpart to the elaborated northern communal building, but that is a provisional reading from preliminary reporting rather than a finished excavation account.
Sources & further reading2 references
- Özdoğan, E. (2024). Sayburç: a mid-9th millennium BC site in the foothills of the Eastern Taurus. Documenta Praehistorica 51: 44–58. Open-access preliminary report of the first excavation seasons; source of the lettered special buildings. doi:10.4312/dp.51.23
- Özdoğan, E. (2025). Interviews on the Sayburç excavation and its reliefs. Transcribed interviews held in the Taş Tepeler research atlas. Spoken material, translated from Turkish; paraphrased rather than quoted. See Özdoğan 2022 for the published account.
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