After winding our
way through a fairly barren landscape, we arrive later in the afternoon to the
location with gifts for the land owner, since we are on private property and
are visiting with his permission. We then
leave the vehicles in his yard and climb a nearby hill. Luckily, the rain had stopped by then!
On the top of the
hill were numerous cupules and even larger “bowls” carved into the
limestone. What they were used for is
not known.
Then working our way
down the eastern slope of the hill, we started encountering numerous unexcavated
stone enclosures. The T-shaped stones that
were there at first glance looked like any of the other limestone rubble on the
ground. Only the tops were visible.
A few of them had
been excavated, and they all were about 4 to 5 feet tall. Mini versions of what was at Göbekli Tepe.
After checking that
out, we climbed back up the hill and down the western slope to the limestone
quarry where a 24 foot unfinished and partially carved stone is still on the
ground.
We had a nice view
as the sun was setting, with Hugh's drone filming us,
and then back to the land owner’s house for some
tea.
Interesting that only the owner and his adult sons had tea with us. The ladies were there, but never came out. I did like the goats, however!
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