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Stela of Salmanasser IIIÜçtepe

Location:

  • Türkiye, Üçtepe
  • geo:37.826157,40.539043
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Period or year:

  • -879 / unknown

Class:

  • Relief, votiv stone or altar
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=42559

Annotations

The Nimrud Monolith is one of the two stelae - orthostat discovered in 1861 by a British archaeologist John George Taylor in Kurkh - Uctepe in Diyarbakir province. This large commemorative stela BM 118883, records the royal construction activity of Ashurnasirpal II (r. 883 BC- 859 BC). Dates to 879 BC.

See:

  1. http://tayproject.org/TAYages.fm$Retrieve?CagNo=9147&html=ages_detail_e.html&layout=web
  2. Ömür Harmanşah, Cities and the Shaping of Memory in the Ancient Near East, Cambridge University Press 2013, pp. 79-80

Nearby

Stela of Shalmaneser III - Kurkh Monolith [Üçtepe Höyük]

Stelae of Shalmaneser III -Salmānu-ašarēd III.

Üçtepe

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

Charcha

OmnesViae import TPPlace2609. Arcaiapis, Charcha, Karcharoman, Üçtepe, formerly Kerh, Üç tepe, Üçtepe koyu.


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