Birkleyn Reliefs

Lower Cave: Northern Face of River Gorge at Cave Entrance, Cuneiform Inscriptions

Title Variant
Tigris Tunnel, Lice Reliefs
Date

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

Geographic Coordinates
38.529969, 40.547449

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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

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