Birkleyn Reliefs

Date: upper relief: mid-9th century BCE; lower relief: early 11th century BCE
Image View Description: Mouth of Lower Cave
Material/Technique: rock-cut relief
Work Type: sculpture
Style/Period: Ancient Assyrian
Style/Period 2: Neo-Assyrian Empire
Culture: Assyrian
Culture: Ancient Near Eastern
Location: Lice (Turkey)
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.
Image Source: Photography by the Media Center for Art History, Department of Art History and Archeology, Columbia University
Photographer: Serdar Yalcin
Record ID: 1415_mmm2015_birkleynreliefs_vr_003


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