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Tigris Tunnel Inscriptions

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Jamie Novotny

Contributors: Jeffrey Becker

Last modified Jan 19, 2021 12:16 AM — History

tags: ANE

The so-called Tigris Tunnel is a cave ca. fifty miles north of Diyarbakır, Turkey and it forms a source of the Tigris River. In its vicinity there are several Assyrian monuments, including five inscriptions.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/914118846

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
38.530227, 40.5486306667

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Representative Locations:
- Imagery Location of Tigris Tunnel (general area) (1600 BC - 720 BC) accuracy: +/- 200 meters.
- Imagery Location of Cave 2 (1600 BC - 720 BC) accuracy: +/- 200 meters.
- Imagery Location of Cave 1 (1600 BC - 720 BC) accuracy: +/- 200 meters.

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Place type:
tunnel, cave, monument

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Wikidata Q1329616: Tigris tunnel

Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

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Suggested citation:
Jamie Novotny, and Jeffrey Becker, ' Tigris Tunnel Inscriptions: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/914118846> [accessed: 12 November 2024]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/914118846 |title=Places: 914118846 ( Tigris Tunnel Inscriptions) |author=Novotny, J. |accessdate=November 12, 2024 2:46 pm |publisher=Pleiades}}

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