INVESTIGATION OF THE COMPATIBILITY OF FASILLAR AND EFLATUNPINAR HITTITE MONUMENTS WITH CLOSE-RANGE PHOTOGRAMMETRIC TECHNIQUE

There are two Hittite monuments in Konya whose names are Eflatunpinar and Fasillar. Eflatunpinar is located approximately 25 km at the North of Beysehir town within Konya province in Turkey. Eflatunpinar monument is belonging to Hittite Empire Age, was known since XIX century. It is an open air temple of Hittite, 6.60 m wide and 7 m high, was built with large block stones. The second one known as Fasillar Hittite monument lies on a hillside next to the Fasillar village which is 16 km east of Beysehir town and it is a high relief monument which is made of basalt rock. It is commonly accepted that these two monuments had never been completely finished. J. Mellaart have suggested that Fasillar monument was not in-situ position, it was moved from Eflatunpinar to Fasillar village by the local people for decoration purposes. This means that ac-cording to J. Mellaart, Fasillar monument is the part of Eflatunpinar monument. The objective of this study is to investigate whether Fasillar monument was built for placing on the top of Eflatunpinar monument which is firstly raised a subject by J. Mellaart. For this purpose, three-dimensional (3D) digital model was created for each monument by close-range photogrammetric technique. By the help of the 3D digital models of these monuments, the unity between the monuments were investigated as an engineering approach.