Birkleyn Reliefs

Date: upper relief: mid-9th century BCE; lower relief: early 11th century BCE
Image View Description: Lower Cave: Northern Face of River Gorge at Cave Entrance, Cuneiform Inscriptions
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: near 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: Gabriel Rodriguez
Record ID: 1516_mmm2015_birkleynreliefs_img_074


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