![]() ![]() ![]() 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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