Birkleyn Reliefs

Birkleyn Reliefs

Upper Cave

Title Variant
Tigris Tunnel, Lice Reliefs
Date

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

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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.

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