Eflatunpinar
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Eflatunpinar is the name in Turkish, given to a spring which rises up from the ground, creating an oasis and fountain. The spring lies 80 miles west of Konya, and drains into the Beyşehir lake in Anatolian peninsula at ancient Pisidia region. In ancient times a small temple was built here to honor one of the ancient Hittite gods, and later Plato was confusely credited with the spring. The shrine precedes Plato of about 1000 years [c.1300 BC]. Eflatunpinar is the modern name for the location.
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Paper of Dr. Lucia Nixon, University of Oxford, also examines Eflatunpinar, in her paper on Çatalhöyük, and makes use of F.W.Hasluck's (1878-1920) work, that often implicitly combines the two disciplines of archaeology and anthropology.
- This paper does the same by comparing the Hittite monument at Eflatunpinar and the Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük. Hasluck shows that Eflatunpinar is regarded as being founded by Plato as a talisman to protect the Konya residents from floods. Plato has become a benignly Islamicised sage, and the monument he established unproblematic. In contrast, Shankland looking at contemporary localviews of the past at Çatalhöyük notes that its Neolithic wall-paintings, reliefs, and figurines now may be seen as pre-Islamic. ( From the introduction of Dr.Nixon's paper)
