Tigris Tunnel Inscriptions

cave · 1600 BC – 720 BC

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.

Coordinates

38.53023, 40.54863

Dating

attested

Sources

• Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places · CC BY 3.0
  Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places (CC BY 3.0)
• Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places · CC BY 3.0
  Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places (CC BY 3.0)
• Wikidata · CC0 1.0
  Wikidata (CC0)

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