Sculpture, Sanliurfa Museum, Urfa, Turkey

Wild boar sculpture, life-size, painted limestone, 8, 700-8, 200 BC, Pre-Pottery neolithic B period, from Building D in Gobekli Tepe, a Pre-Pottery neolithic settlement, c. 10, 000-6, 500 BC, Mesopotamian, excavated 2010, 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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