upper relief: mid-9th century BCE; lower relief: early 11th century BCE
Location:
Lice (Turkey)
Title Variant:
Tigris Tunnel, Lice Reliefs
Work Type:
sculpture
Material / Technique:
rock-cut relief
Culture:
Assyrian, Ancient Near Eastern
Style / Period:
Ancient Assyrian, Neo-Assyrian Empire
Digital Media Source
Photography by the Media Center for Art History, Department of Art History & Archaeology, Columbia University, produced as a part of the Mapping Mesopotamian Monuments project
Digitized Media Source
Photographer:
Serdar Yalcin
Notes:
Assyrian kings Tiglath-pileser I (lower relief) and Shalmaneser III (upper relief), in the early eleventh and mid-ninth centuries BCE respectively, visited this source of the Tigris river repeatedly.