Fasıllar monument

At the village of Fasıllar, about 60 km west of Konya, southeast of Lake Beyşehir in the Turkish province of Konya, a large Hittite sculpture is located on a slope of an unknown ancient site.

Unlike other works of Hittite sculptors, this is not a relief carved into an existing rock wall, but a free-standing (or lying) monument. It is 2.75 m wide and 8 m high and weighs about 70 tons. It is dated to the reign of Grand King Tudaliyah IV and probably shows Teššub, the weather god of the sky. He wears a hat with four horns that identify him as a god. His right hand is raised, while his left arm is only as an unfinished stump hand.

The importance of the work is widely debated in the scientific community, including the idea that it was intended as a further piece of equipment for the sanctuary of Eflatun Pınar, about 40 km away, but was never completed.

A standing copy of the work can be seen at the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations in Ankara.

On the opposite slope is a Roman-era stone tomb with a horse carving. It shows on the left an arch that may have contained an urn or a statue of the buried, flanked by two uncannelled Corinthian columns. On the right side is a stomping horse carved.