Birkleyn Reliefs
Image View Description:
Entrance to Upper Cave Facing East
Date:
upper relief: mid-9th century BCE; lower relief: early 11th century BCE
Location:
near Lice (Turkey)
Title Variant:
Tigris Tunnel, Lice Reliefs
Work Type:
sculpture
Material / Technique:
rock-cut relief
Culture:
Assyrian
Culture 2:
Ancient Near Eastern
Style / Period:
Ancient Assyrian
Style / Period 2:
Neo-Assyrian Empire
Photographer:
Gabriel Rodriguez
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.

Image Source:

Photography by the Media Center for Art History, Department of Art History and Archeology, Columbia University

Record ID:
1516_mmm2015_birkleynreliefs_img_012
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