Lower Cave: View of Relief of Tiglath-Pileser I, Cuneiform Inscription, Northern Face of River Gorge
Title Variant:
Tigris Tunnel, Lice Reliefs
Date:
upper relief: mid-9th century BCE; lower relief: early 11th century BCE
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Latitude: 38.529969000000
Longitude: 40.547476000000
Longitude: 40.547476000000
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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.
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Image Source:
Photography by the Media Center for Art History, Department of Art History and Archeology, Columbia University
Image Date:
June 1st, 2015