The Assyrian Rock Relief at Yamur in the Tur Abdin publishes a newly discovered rock relief in the Mazda Plain, at the western end of the Tur Abdin in southeastern Turkey. The preserved remains include an image of an Assyrian king, divine symbols and traces of three panels of cuneiform inscription. Both the image and the panel preserving the most coherent section of legible text can be dated to the time of Tiglath-pileser I. The sequences which can be deciphered relate to the kings penetration into the northwest undertaken in the course of his third campaign against the Nairi lands. The monument is studied in the context of our understanding of the Assyrian expansion in this sector, together with a review of the settlement pattern and political organisation of the Tur Abdin as presented in Assyrian sources.
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Weight: 166g
Dimensions: 174 x 245mm
Publication Date: 04 May 2023
Publisher: Archaeopress
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781803274225
About Bülent GençJohn MacGinnis
Bülent Genç is Associate Professor in the Department of Archaeology at Mardin Artuklu University. His specialises in the archaeology of Mesopotamia and Anatolia and is involved in multiple excavation and survey projects with a particular interest in the archaeology of the Bronze and Iron Ages. John MacGinnis is based in the Middle East Department of the British Museum and the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research in Cambridge. His interests are the archaeology and epigraphy of Mesopotamia in the first millennium BC. He has participated in fieldwork across the Middle East including at the Assyrian sites of Nineveh Nimrud Ziyaret Tepe Tell Masaikh and the fortress of Usu Aska in the Darband-i Rania pass in Iraqi Kurdistan.