Nahr al-Kalb monuments
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jamie Novotny Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Jamie Novotny Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Nov 05, 2023 11:06 PM
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History
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ANE,
extant remains
Over twenty rock reliefs (with accompanying inscriptions) are carved into the limestone cliffs around the estuary of the Nahr al-Kalb river.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/2970016
33.955434, 35.597312
- Representative Locations:
- Imagery Location of the Esarhaddon monument (720 BC - 540 BC) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
- Imagery Location of the Nebuchadnezzar II monument (720 BC - 540 BC) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- نهر الكلب (Nahr al-Kalb: Arabic, modern)
- Nahr al-Kalb monuments located on Lykos (river) (unspecified date range)
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The monuments carved on the cliffs here include three Egyptian hieroglyphic steles, six Akkadian monuments, several Greek and Roman inscriptions, Arabic inscriptions, a memorial to Napoleon III's 1860 intervention in Lebanon, and a dedication to the 1943 independence of Lebanon from France.
Jamie Novotny, Jeffrey Becker, Carolin Johansson, and Rune Rattenborg, 'Nahr al-Kalb monuments: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/2970016> [accessed: 16 April 2024]
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