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Some New Assyrian Rock-Reliefs in Turkey

Title
Some New Assyrian Rock-Reliefs in Turkey
Creator(s)
Taşyürek, O. Aytuğ
Date
1975
Is Part Of
Anatolian Studies
Volume
25
Pages
169-180
Language
eng
ISSN
2048-0849, 0066-1546
DOI
https://doi.org/10.2307/3642581
URI
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/anatolian-studies/article/abs/some-new-assyrian-rockreliefs-in-turkey/5A319DADCB1456B7331F4010C89BD6B9
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Abstract
Of the Assyrian rock-reliefs in Turkey, only two long-known groups, those of the Cudi Dağ and Bırklin (“the Tigris Tunnel”) have been fully published. These groups are both accompanied by inscriptions and present no problems of dating. A further relief at Eğil has been known for some time but is somewhat inaccessible, to the extent that it is still unclear whether or not it is inscribed. It has been the subject of a recent study.It is the purpose of the present article to make known some further Assyrian rock-reliefs, a single one from Cilicia, and a group from the Hatay. These reliefs were located by the author during surveys and travels, 1973–74. That these reliefs have remained undiscovered up to the present is a curious coincidence, and they may now take their place alongside those of the Cudi Dağ and Bırklin, as well as the rather few other reliefs discovered outside Assyria proper such as those of the Nahr el Kelb; we shall also see that they offer parallels to some of the native Assyrian reliefs such as those of the Maltai. In the absence of any identifying inscriptions the new reliefs present greater problems of dating.
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