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The Boar Image on a Grinding Stone

This Sefertepe object links animal imagery with a grinding-stone context and should stay separate from broader boar symbolism. Materials: stone.

Site: SefertepeType: decorated grinding stone
T-shaped pillars in situ at Sefertepe. (Site view; not a photograph of the boar grinding stone.)

T-shaped pillars in situ at Sefertepe. (Site view; not a photograph of the boar grinding stone.)

Frantisek Trampota, Sefer Tepe T-stelae, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

What's actually there

Category: decorated grinding stone Materials: stone Forms: incised juvenile wild boar on reverse side of heavily used grinding stone Count: 1 highlighted object Context status: grinding-stone context; exact locus not captured Open: Confirm exact source image/caption, use-wear description, and whether incision pre/post-dates use.

What to notice

This Sefertepe object links animal imagery with a grinding-stone context and should stay separate from broader boar symbolism. Materials: stone. Forms: incised juvenile wild boar on reverse side of heavily used grinding stone.

What's carved on it

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Last reviewed 7 October 2026. Something wrong?