Gölpınar
(For Gölpınar Hittite Dam, see Alacahöyük)

Two basalt steles of the Late Hittite style have been found in different occasions near the Gölpınar village in the Akziyaret township of Şanlıurfa. One of the steles, although the upper part is damaged, depicts the Storm-god in a typical pose standing on a bull. Its preserved section measures 116 cm in height and 42 cm in width. The back side of the stele is round with a diameter of 30 cm and does not bear any carvings. The second stele shows a protective deity (Stag-god), standing on a stag (see Altınyayla, Karasu, Hacıbebekli). With a flat back, it is more in the style of an orthostat, and the surviving section measures 116 cm high, 75 cm wide, and 20 cm thick. They are roughly dated to the 10th century BCE.

Further fragments were found in Gölpınar in 1998 during a survey by Fikri Kulakoğlu. A piece from the head of a statue built into the wall of a house and a stele fragment with a lion relief and a badly weathered Aramaic(?) inscription in the cemetery of the village are likely to be dated to the late Neo-Hittite period.


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