Eflatunpınar
Ancient siteBeyşehir, Konya
37.8257°N · 31.6747°E
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- Tentative World Heritage Site
Eflatunpınar is a ancient site in Beyşehir; Eflatun Pinar (the Hittite Water Monument) is a stone-built pool monument set over a spring that rises from the ground, built during the Hittite Empire inside Lake Beysehir National Park, about 85 km west of Konya.
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- 37.8257°N · 31.6747°E
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Eflatun Pinar (the Hittite Water Monument) is a stone-built pool monument set over a spring that rises from the ground, built during the Hittite Empire inside Lake Beysehir National Park, about 85 km west of Konya. Dedicated in the Late Bronze Age to a sacred spring cult, it has been identified with the 'spring pool of Arimatta' mentioned in a treaty between the Hittite king Tudhaliya IV and King Kurunta of Tarhuntassa. In the medieval Seljuk period it was reinterpreted as a shrine to Plato.
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