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12/10/2020 01:00 PM
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Origin and Cultural Embedment of the “Stepped Monuments” of Central Anatolia
Lorenzo d'Alfonso
This lecture will take place online. Registration is required, click through for the registration link. Zoom information will be provided via confirmation email to registered participants. Anatolian step monuments are a typology of rock-carved landscape monuments spread on rocky hills and mountains of west-central Anatolia. They consist of a series of steps cut in the stone and, in some cases, an altar shaped as a stone seat with backrest. In some other cases, a platform is flattened on top of the steps, and in both cases they can count one or two carved, semi-lunate aniconic idols as well as a few Phrygian inscriptions engraved in the stone.
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