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
Location
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.
Image Date
June 1st, 2015
Image Source
Photography by the Media Center for Art History, Department of Art History and Archeology, Columbia University
Photographer