Eflatun Eflatun Destroy Erase Improve Meaning and using the word Eflatun in Turkish according to "Dictionnaire Turc-Français, Par Diran Kélékian, Imprimerie Mihran, Constantinople, 1911, page 908", with order the definitions of similar voices are arranged as : ...félâh : -subsantif masculin- salut / délivrance-féminin- / felicite-féminin- /prosperite-féminin... (happiness, prosperity), fellâh : -masculin-paysan laboureur d'Egypte...(dark coloured skin North African fellow), félahât : -subsantif féminin- agriculture, fylar : -subsantif-soulier (shoe)-masculin-, fylaryz : -subsantif- pilon avec lequel on bat le lin etc.(Pilon with which one beats the linen etc.), félâssefe : -subsantif masculin- (philosophy), félâtoun : -noum propre--voyez-, felatouny : -adjective--voyez-... Its written as Felatoun with arabic scripts in Turkish however read as Eflatun. Yonder, in Turkish literature and scholarship the word Eflatun or Eflatuni related with Plato or Platonism as well as Plotinus and Neoplatonism. Some scholars claim that the distortion of the name Platon to Felatoun and to Eflatun is the explanation of the case but its not definite. It is fact that in Turkish Eflatun means, Lilac-colour.

Eflatun Spring

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Eflatun Spring (Eflatun Pinar) is the name traditionally 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 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 confusely Plato was credited with the spring. The shrine precedes Plato about 1000 years [c.1300 BC]. Eflatun Pinar is the modern name for the location.

Paper of Dr. Lucia Nixon, University of Oxford, examines Eflatun Pinar, Çatalhöyük, and the uses of the past F.W. Hasluck’s (1878-1920) work often implicitly combines the two disciplines of archaeology and anthropology. This paper does the same by comparing the Hittite monument at Eflatun Pınar and the Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük. Hasluck shows that Eflatun Pınar 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 introduction of Dr.Nixon's paper)

External links

Anthropology, Archaeology and Heritage in the Balkans and Anatolia The Life and Times of F.W. Hasluck (1878-1920) [University of Wales, Gregynog, 3rd-6th November 2001] F.W. Hasluck, Classical Archaeologist