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A Rock Relief of Shalmaneser III on the Euphrates

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2014

O. Aytuğ Taşyürek
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Up to 1973 Assyrian rock reliefs found in Turkey numbered only a few. Those of Cudi Dağ and Birklin (“the Tigris Tunnel”) were published early in this century, while a further relief at Eğil in the province of Diyarbakir has been long known but not satisfactorily published until recently.

In 1973, the author undertook systematic surveys with the help of assistants in the Adana Regional Museum, Cilicia, and was able to locate a Neo-Assyrian rock relief at Ferhath-Uzunoğlan Tepe, near Kozan in the province of Adana, which he reported and subsequently published. Later, in 1974, while on survey in the province of the Hatay (Antakya), he located what appeared to be a Neo-Assyrian open-air sanctuary at Karabur, with four rock reliefs depicting gods and in one case the human figure of a worshipper. These too were reported and published.

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Research Article
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IRAQ , Volume 41 , Issue 1 , Spring 1979 , pp. 47 - 53
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Copyright © The British Institute for the Study of Iraq 1979

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5 I would like to thank J. D. Hawkins, who made the copy of the text from my photographs and provided the transliteration and translation.

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