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Location:

  • Iraq, Kawshik Suflá
  • geo:35.218025,45.416382
  • Location ± 100-500 m.

Period or year:

  • -2250~ / unknown

Class:

  • Relief, votiv stone or altar
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=38996

Annotations

The rock relief lof Naram-Sin reign c. 2254  BC – 2218  BC lies on the cliff side of Darband-i-Gawr — "the pass of the pagan" dates back ca 2250 BC.

See:

  1. etc.ancient.eu/travel/naram-sin-relief-iraq/
  2. Melissa Eppihimer, Exemplars of Kingship: Art, Tradition, and the Legacy of the Akkadians, Oxford University Press 2019,
  3. https://www.google.com/maps/place/Naram+Sin/@35.224438,45.3773382,19915m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m13!1m7!3m6!1s0x3fff91da93cdaa53:0xd20276646f5a175b!2sQara+Dagh,+Irak!3b1!8m2!3d35.3087658!4d45.390991!3m4!1s0x3fff9702e8fc50f5:0x59688e4299ac2da8!8m2!3d35.2187501!4d45.4137844
  4.  

Nearby

Darband-i-Belula

Akkadian period rock Relief of Darband-i Belula in Sirwan.

Unidentified site (19 km)

Probable archaeological site. Located with satellite imagery.

Unidentified site (20 km)

Probable archaeological site. Located with satellite imagery.


This object was added by Elżbieta on 2017-03-19. Last update by Peter Szedlak on 2022-06-18. Persistent URI: http://vici.org/vici/38996 . Download as RDF/XML, KML.
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