![]() ![]() Further supporting a linguistic connection between Luwian hieroglyphs and images at G öbekli Tepe are to date untranslated Luwian symbols resembling the T-shape iconography of G öbekli Tepe and an H-like symbol which was the Luwian word for “gate”. ![]() An almost identical symbol appears as a logogram in the now extinct hieroglyphic language of the Bronze Age Luwians of Anatolia and there it meant the word for “god”. ![]() On Pillar 18 in Enclosure D, for example, one such “H” is bracketed by two semi-circles. We examined if H-shaped carvings in relief on some of these pillars might have a symbolic meaning rather than merely depicting an object of practical use. G öbekli Tepe is a prehistoric, man-made megalithic hill site in today’s southeast Turkey which is riddled with walled circular and rectangular enclosures lined by and surrounding T-shaped monolithic pillars proposed to represent supernatural humanoid beings. ![]()
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