Gölpınar is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of

Karaköprü Karaköprü () is a municipality and district of Şanlıurfa Province, Turkey. Its area is 1,222 km2, and its population is 265,035 (2022). The district Karaköprü was created at the 2013 reorganisation from part of the former central distr ...

Şanlıurfa Province Şanlıurfa Province (; ), also known as Urfa Province, is a Provinces of Turkey, province and Metropolitan municipalities in Turkey, metropolitan municipality in southeastern Turkey. The city of Şanlıurfa is the capital of the province which be ...

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. Its population is 670 (2022). It is located about north of

Urfa Urfa, officially called Şanlıurfa (), is a city in southeastern Turkey and the capital of Şanlıurfa Province. The city was known as Edessa from Hellenistic period, Hellenistic times and into Christian times. Urfa is situated on a plain abo ...

. It is located just south of the road to Kabahaydar, east of the road's intersection with the main Urfa-

Siverek Siverek (; ; ) is a municipality and district of Şanlıurfa Province, Turkey. Its area is 3,936 km2, and its population is 267,942 (2022). Siverek is in the Şanlıurfa province but is geographically closer to the large city of Diyarbakır (a ...

highway. It lies on a plain that stretches east toward Kabahaydar, between the Akziyaret Tepe hill to the north and the forested hills called Atatürk Ormanı (part of Germuş Dağ) to the south. There is a spring in the east of the village.

Archaeology

The village sits on top of a small archaeological mound about 250 m in diameter and 10 m in height. In some places, erosion from the spring has revealed basalt architectural fragments. Old relief fragments are also visible in the walls of some houses. Two ancient stone artifacts were found at Gölpınar: one is a broken

stele A stele ( ) or stela ( )The plural in English is sometimes stelai ( ) based on direct transliteration of the Greek, sometimes stelae or stelæ ( ) based on the inflection of Greek nouns in Latin, and sometimes anglicized to steles ( ) or stela ...

, 116 cm tall and 42 cm wide, is now kept at the Şanlıurfa Museum; the other is an

orthostat This article describes several characteristic architectural elements typical of European megalithic (Stone Age) structures. Forecourt In archaeology, a forecourt is the name given to the area in front of certain types of chamber tomb. Forecourts ...

measuring 116x75x20 cm. F. Kulakoğlu dated the stele to approximately the 8th century BCE and the orthostat to about the late 10th century BCE. The stele depicts a male figure riding on a bull; the upper part of the male figure is missing. He is wearing a short skirt with a wide belt and traditional Hittite shoes with upturned tips. Attached to his belt is a sword. The orthostat depicts a male figure riding a deer, also in a Hittite-like style with the head and lower body in profile but the torso shown head-on. In this case, his head is missing except for his beard. He is wearing a short-sleeved robe with a wide belt; attached to the belt is a short sword with a crescent-shaped hilt. He is holding a bow in his left hand and two arrows in his right. This imagery is associated with a god who was protector of the countryside.

References

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