Eflatun Pınar - Plato's Spring, is a Hittite water sanctuary dated to the second half of 13th century BC. The monuments display the hierarchical image of the Hittite Pantheon. Eflatun Pınar lies about 100 kilometres west of Konya close to the lake of Beyşehir in a hilly, quite aridly landscape. The magniificent stone-built structure on the edge of a stream pool was discovered in 1983 and excavated in 2001.
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