Eflatun Pınar

Eflatun Pınar ( Turkish for Plato source or purple source), also Eflatunpınar, is a Hittite source sanctuary east of Beyşehir Lake about 70 kilometers west of Konya in the Turkish province of Konya.

A 7 meter wide and 4.2 meter high facade sculptured stone blocks stands on the north side of a jammed source pond, whose brick edge encloses an approximately square water area of ​​30 × 34 meters. Presumably, the plant comes from the time of the Hittite empire between the 15th and 13th century BC. It is composed of individual blocks of stone and has a width of seven meters and together with the underlying intermittent water base also has a height of seven meters. The bottom row consists of five mountain gods, which are seen only at low water. It can be seen in the middle chief god and goddess, but there is uncertainty about their identity. They are flanked by various hybrid creatures, whose function is not known. They support a set lying above all winged sun disk.

On the opposite side of the pond extends into the foundations of another building have been preserved. Before the end wall, the sculptured figure of a sun goddess is placed with Aureole, which belonged to a pair of gods. A stone block was a few meters from the southeast corner of the pond again erected with three bull sculptures. Probably the monumental block at this point lay there without being reaches its originally planned location.

In the near vicinity of the pond are still various parts of sculptures and other debris to see what the conjecture suggests that it has once traded for a larger sanctuary.

James Mellaart looks in Eflatun Pınar a Arzawan sanctuary with thunderstorm god and the sun goddess, Kurt Bittel, however, considers it a victory monument of Tudhalija IV (13th century BC).

The lies about 30 km southeast of relief Fasıllar may have been planned as a further additional part for Eflatun Pınar.

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