Mouth of Lower Cave
Title Variant
Tigris Tunnel, Lice Reliefs
Date
upper relief: mid-9th century BCE; lower relief: early 11th century BCE
Location
Material/Technique
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Notes
Dibni Su, one of the tributaries of the Tigris, emerges at the end of this 1018m-long tunnel. 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.
Style/Period
Culture
Image Date
June 1st, 2015
Image Source
Photography by the Media Center for Art History, Department of Art History and Archeology, Columbia University
Photographer
Record ID
1415_mmm2015_birkleynreliefs_vr_003