Birkleyn Reliefs

Image View Description

Lower Cave and Gorge, Relief of Tiglath-pileser I

Date

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

Material/Technique
  • rock-cut relief
Work Type
sculpture
Style/Period
Ancient Assyrian
Style/Period 2
Neo-Assyrian Empire
Culture
Assyrian
Culture 2
Ancient Near Eastern
Location
Lice (Turkey)
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 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_004