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Relief of Shalmaneser III

Location:

  • ,
  • geo:38.53796,40.555412
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Period or year:

  • -6000 / unknown

Class:

  • Rural settlement
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=61669

Annotations

The discovery of neolithic Hassuna-Samarra pottery in the entrance halls; which open towards the canyon; suggests that they may have been used seasonally1

See:

  1. Ali Yamac, Oldest Documented Caves of the World, Birkleyn Caves - https://www.academia.edu/12014280/Oldest_Documented_Caves_of_the_World_Birkleyn_Caves
  2. Omur Harmansah, Event, Place, Performance: Rock Reliefs and Spring Monuments in Anatolia, in: Of Rocks and Water: Towards an Archaeology of Place, Edition: 1, Chapter: 11.,  Oxbow Books, 2014,  pp.140-168
  3. idem: Cities and the Shaping of Memory in the Ancient Near East, Cambridge University Press 2013
  4. Berkleyn - http://www.tayproject.org/TAYages.fm$Retrieve?CagNo=4716&html=ages_detail_e.html&layout=web

References

  1. Tay Project


Nearby

Birkleyn Cave IV

Prehistoric site. Hassuna pottery.

Birkleyn Cave II

Assyrian inscription.

Birkleyn Cave I - Tigris-Tunnel (1 km)

Assyrian inscription.


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