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The Double-Faced Bead from Sefertepe

This double-faced bead is one of Sefertepe's most distinctive portable objects: a small wearable object with two human-like faces reported in current public sources. Materials: black basalt in Türkiye Today/Stone Mounds reporting; keep separate from official broader bead materials.

Site: SefertepeType: anthropomorphic bead
Sefertepe. (Site view; not a photograph of this find.)

Sefertepe. (Site view; not a photograph of this find.)

Frantisek Trampota, Sefer Tepe, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

What's actually there

Category: anthropomorphic bead Materials: black basalt in Türkiye Today/Stone Mounds reporting; keep separate from official broader bead materials Forms: double-faced / two human faces; perforated wearable object in image captions from secondary reports Count: 1 reported highlighted object Context status: portable object; exact locus not captured Open: Resolve basalt vs serpentinite/serpentine if older TGA wording is recovered; capture dimensions and findspot. Details

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Last reviewed 21 July 2026. Something wrong?