What is there
Structure DA is reported as a special building in the southern area, distinctive for being encircled by dwellings — a communal-type building embedded directly among ordinary houses rather than set apart. Its recorded features are a double-step bench and at least one destroyed central T-pillar found lying on the floor, suggesting the standing stone had toppled or been brought down before or during the building's abandonment.
DA is only partially excavated, so its full plan and any carved decoration remain unknown, and the circumstances behind the fallen pillar are not yet interpreted in print. As with the other lettered southern buildings, the details here are from preliminary reporting of an active excavation and should be treated as provisional.
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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