Sayburç · Structure
Structure DA
A partially excavated special building in Sayburç's southern area, encircled by dwellings, with a double-step bench and at least one toppled central T-pillar found lying on its floor.
Sayburç · Structure
A partially excavated special building in Sayburç's southern area, encircled by dwellings, with a double-step bench and at least one toppled central T-pillar found lying on its floor.
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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.
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DA being ringed by dwellings echoes Sayburç's larger pattern — communal and domestic architecture interleaved rather than zoned apart. It reinforces the reading that the 'special' buildings were part of the lived settlement, not set on a separate sacred ground. Offered as interpretation from a partly excavated building.
The central T-pillar lying on the floor shows the standing stone came down before or during abandonment, but why — deliberate decommissioning, collapse, or later disturbance — is not yet interpreted in print and should not be read as intentional destruction on present evidence.
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