Image: Tiglath-Pileser I relief portrait
Description: Part of a rock relief depicting Tiglath-Pileser I (c. 1114 -1079 BC). The cuneiform text left of the king (not entirely in this image) identify him as "Tukultī-apil-Ešarra king of Ashur, son of Ashur-resh-ishi king of Ashur, son of Mutakkil-Nusku king of Ashur". The inscription was discovered inside a natural cave at the spot called Birkleyn or "The Tigris Tunnel" in 1862. source: British Museum [1]
Title: Tiglath-Pileser I relief portrait
Credit: Materialien zur älteren Geschichte Armeniens und Mesopotamiens (1906), p. 18 (Internet Archive identifier: materialienzur00lehm )
Author: Carl Ferdinand Friedrich Lehmann-Haupt
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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