Imagery Location of Cave 1
a Pleiades
location
resource
Creators: Jamie Novotny
Creators: Jamie Novotny
Contributors:
Jeffrey Becker
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Last modified
May 09, 2018 03:10 PM
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History
tags:
ANE
The given coordinates are based on recent Google satellite imagery and annotated satellite imagery provided in Schachner and Karen Radner 2008. The caves/tunnels with the inscriptions are visible.
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cave, monument
{ "type": "Point", "coordinates": [ 40.551103, 38.530605 ] }
Traces
Certain
representative
- Later 2nd Millennium BC Mesopotamia (1600–1000 BC) (confident)
- Early 1st Millennium BC Mesopotamia (1000-720 BC) (confident)
Pleiades
The Tigris Tunnel contains three reliefs and inscriptions. One dates to the reign of the Middle Assyrian king Tiglath-pileser I and two from the time of the Neo-Assyrian king Shalmaneser III.