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Surroundings:

Stela of Salmanasser IIIStele of Ashurnasirpal II - Kurkh MonolithÜçtepe

Location:

  • Türkiye, Üçtepe
  • geo:37.826233,40.539902
  • Location ± 5-25 m.

Period or year:

  • -900~ / unknown

Class:

  • City
  • visible

Identifiers:

Annotations

The site is consideried to be identified with the ancient city of Tushpa or Tushpan in order to determine the location of the provincial palace founded by the Assyrian King Assurnasirpal I during the first quarter of the IX century BC1. According to K. Korgolu it is a place of ancient Tidu2 mentioned in Nimrud Monolith.

Sources:

  1. http://www.kultur.gov.tr/EN,113920/diyarbakir---historical-ruins.htm
  2. Üçtepe / Kerh-http://tayproject.org/TAYages.fm$Retrieve?CagNo=9147&html=ages_detail_e.html&layout=webl
  3. Ömür Harmanşah, Cities and the Shaping of Memory in the Ancient Near East, Cambridge University Press 2013, p. 80

References

  1. ↑http://tayproject.org/TAYages.fm$Retrieve?CagNo=9147&html=ages_detail_e.html&layout=web
  2. ↑Ö. Harmanşah, Cities and the Shaping of Memor.. 2013, p. 80


Nearby

Üçtepe

23 coins Armenian king Tigranes the Younger, 18 Roman coins from the first to the fourth century

Stela of Shalmaneser III - Kurkh Monolith [Üçtepe Höyük]

Stelae of Shalmaneser III -Salmānu-ašarēd III.

Stele of Ashurnasirpal II - Kurkh Monolith [Üçtepe Höyük]

ssyrian royal inscriptions of Ashurnasirpal II


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