Sculpture, Sanliurfa Museum, Urfa, Turkey

Griffon or vulture sculpture, limestone, neolithic, from Karahan Tepe, a Pre-Pottery neolithic site founded c. 10, 000 BC, in Sanliurfa Archaeology and Mosaic Museums, or Sanliurfa Museum, in Sanliurfa, or Urfa, Turkey. In ancient times Urfa was the city of Edessa in Upper Mesopotamia, founded in Hellenistic times an an important city throughout the Roman period. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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Excavated Griffon Gryphon Karahan Limestone Mesopotamia Museums Muzesi Neolithic Pre-pottery Prehistory Sanliurfa Tepe Turkiye Urfa Vulture

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