Hittite Ancient Pool & Eflatunpinar Religious Monument Stock Photo

Eflatunpınar, "Plato's Spring") is the name given to a spring which rises up from the ground, and the stone-built pool monument built at the time of the Hittite Empire. The spring lies 80 miles west of Konya, and drains into Lake Beyşehir in Anatolian peninsula at ancient Pisidia region. During the Late Bronze Age a sacred pool monument was built here in trachyte ashlar masonry dedicated to the sacred spring cult of ancient Hittites. The monument was interpreted as a shrine to Plato during the medieval (Seljuk) period.