Birkleyn Reliefs

Lower Cave: View West from Cave Entrance, River Gorge, Relief and Inscriptions are on the Northern Face of the Gorge

Title Variant
Tigris Tunnel, Lice Reliefs
Date

upper relief: mid-9th century BCE; lower relief: early 11th century BCE

Geographic Coordinates
38.529969, 40.547442

Material/Technique

Work Type

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.

Photographer
Image Source

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

Image Date
June 1st, 2015