The Kilisik sculpture’s strange embrace links it to a lost Stone Age world

Filed by Elara Myst

The Kilisik sculpture combines a T-shaped head, a carved face and an ambiguous embrace. Comparing it with excavated Neolithic art reveals more than its unusual appearance.The head is a broad, flat T. Below it, a long nose projects from a narrow face. Arms run down the sides of the limestone body, and the hands meet above what looks like the head of a smaller figure.The Kilisik sculpture, now associated with the Archaeological Museum in Adıyaman, is an object you can look at for some time b