What is the Kilisik sculpture found near Gobekli Tepe symboling? This sculpture was originally discovered by a local farmer and purchased from him by two archaeology students working at the excavations in Arsameia “about an hour by horse north-west of the Roman bridge in the village of Kilisik” and later transferred to the Archaeological Museum in Adıyaman near Gobekli Tepe, Turkey.

The sculpture measures 80 cm in height and is carved from limestone, the conspicuously T-shaped head shows a broader back and rather slim face with an emphasized nose and only suggested eyes. Arms are depicted on both sides of the body, the hands meeting above the belly at some bulge which can be identified as the head of another, smaller manlike figure below. Whose left arm is more or less hanging down, but the right hand seems to reach towards its lower body – where a circular hollow was carved into the stone.