Lower Cave: Northern Rock Face with Relief of Tiglath-Pileser I and Cuneiform Inscription
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
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