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The Late Bronze Age Monuments of Eflatun Pınar and Fasıllar near Beyşehir

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

James Mellaart
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The purpose of this short article is to draw attention to a number of features presented by these well known monuments near Beyşehir which are in need of further clarification, and to offer yet another suggestion about its original appearance.

During the last decade, a number of articles from the pen of Professors H. G. Güterbock, K. Bittel, R. Naumann and E. Laroche have been devoted to the sanctuary of Eflatun Pınar and it might be thought that there is little to add. That this is not so, I trust this article will show. These remarks are the result of three visits to these monuments in 1952, 1955 and 1957.

The Fasıllar statue (7·40 m. in height) lies in the Roman stadium of a classical site above the village of that name. Its rough condition suggests, as Güterbock has already pointed out, that it may have been unfinished and locally quarried, roughed out for transport and for some reason left there. The material is trachyte, which occurs locally. Güterbock comments on the lack of “Hittite” sherds at Fasıllar. One can go further; there is no site there earlier than the Classical one. The nearest Late Bronze Age sites are Karahisar, Evreği and Kızılviran Hüyüks. The latter site is the largest, but it is difficult to see why anyone should want to quarry a statue at Fasıllar, 50 km. away, if the statue was meant to be erected at this site, which is surrounded by trachyte rocks within a few kilometres.

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Anatolian Studies , Volume 12 , December 1962 , pp. 111 - 117
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Copyright © The British Institute at Ankara 1962

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6 First noticed in 1952, by the writer.

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19 Güterbock, op. cit., Fig. 5.

20 Naumann, op. cit., p. 188, quotes Forrer's, E. article in MDOG. 65, 1927, p. 42Google Scholar, about an alleged irrigation system along the Çarsamba Çay in the Konya Plain. While resurveying that area in 1958 it was established that the whole area with irrigation ditches was devoid of prehistoric settlement. The only sites found here, and they are quite numerous, are of Roman date. It can therefore be reasonably inferred that the irrigation system with which they are associated is not of earlier date.

21 Naumann, op. cit., p. 70.