Southern Side of Upper Ridge of Hillside, Relief, Sunny Conditions
Date:
ca. 9-8th centuries BCE
Location:
Kesentaş (Turkey), Gisgis (Turkey)
Title Variant:
Kesentaş Relief, Gis Gis Relief
Work Type:
sculpture
Material / Technique:
bas-relief
Culture:
Assyrian, Ancient Near Eastern
Style / Period:
Assyrian Empire, 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:
The general stylistic features of the Gisgis relief suggest that it was carved in the period between the reigns of the Assyrian kings Shalmeneser III and Sargon II