“The relief is very worn and occupies a panel excavated in the rock a foot or more deep. This panel, which is decorated on the outside edge by a shallow frame, and on the inside by a beveled mounting, so to speak, 8 inches wide, measures: base 6 feet 8 inches; height 9 feet 6 inches; top 5 feet 6 inches. The figure is 8 feet tall and 1 foot 8 inches across the chest; it looks to the spectator’s right; the right arm is outstretched, with the hand level with the face and holding some unrecognizable object; a long cloak seems to hang from the shoulder; below the cloak is a shirt-like garment looped up in front, apparently into a low belt, giving the effect of very baggy trouser; the calves are flat and muscular; the face and headdress are badly mutilated, but the latter seems to be a highish conical cap with two horns, one blunt, sticking out behind. The figure has been maliciously damaged, mostly by rifle fire; one scar was evidently recent at the time of my visit.” (source: C.J. Edmonds 1931 after“Osama S. M. Amin,2015).
Median king? Izates II: Vologases I?
Sources:
- Cecil John Edmonde, A Third Note on Rock Monuments in Southern Kurdistan. " Geographical Journal 77, 1931, pp. 350- 55
- idem: “Two Ancient Monuments in Southern Kurdistan,” Geographical Journal 65, 1925, pp. 63-64
- Osama S. M. Amin, The Rock Relief of Harir (Hareer), Iraqi Kurdistan, Published on December 28, 2015 - etc.ancient.eu/education/rock-relief-of-harir-hareer-iraqi-kurdistan/
- Maciej Grabowski, Abdissares of Adiabene and the Batas-Herir Relief , Światowit – Tom IX (L), fasc. A (2011), pp. 117-140