Birkleyn Reliefs

Birkleyn Reliefs

View from Upper Cave Ridge Facing Northwest

Title Variant
Tigris Tunnel, Lice Reliefs
Date

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

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
Digital Media Source
Photography by the Media Center for Art History, Department of Art History & Archaeology, Columbia University, produced as a part of the Mapping Mesopotamian Monuments project
Photographer
Record ID
1516_mmm2015_birkleynreliefs_img_027