stele

The thirteen stelae discovered beneath Hakkari Castle in 1998 were likely erected for the rulers of a people who migrated from the steppe into the mountains of Eastern Anatolia during the 2nd millennium BC

In 2020, on the pasturelands of Ormanlı, north-east of Erzurum, local shepherds came across a stone figure protruding from the ground, which turned out to be a 2,500-year-old anthropomorphic stele: a male figure wearing a broad belt and raising a vessel to his mouth