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| It is located 1.5 km north of Kesentas (Gisgis) Village, 15 km southwest of Ergani District in Diyarbakir Province. It is the area where the hills on the southern skirts of the Taurus Mountains begin. It is located in the south slope of rocky hill named as Kela Imike by local people. It is first mentioned in Huntington's letter that was written in 1899 to Lehmann-Haupt. He stated that the relief was a Neo-Assyrian relief based on the unconfirmed information he received. Then in 1925 Unger and in 1982 Börker-Klahn mentioned about the relief. It was visited by Seref Yumruk in 2011. It was documented in 2013 by Diyarbakir Museum. It is depicted on a leveled surface of 1.75x1.70 m inside a 1x1.60 m frame with low-relief technique and linear decoration. On the left side, there is a depiction of Goddess Ishtar, wearing a horned polos, on top of a lion. The Goddess wears a tunic reaching to her knees and a ceremonial dress reaching to her ankles. While she holds the leash of the lion with her left hand, she blesses the king on the other side of the scene with her right hand. In front of the Goddess, there is a depiction of a winged and scorpion tailed lion-demon carrying the crescent, which is the symbol of the God Sin, on a fringed standard. In front of it, there is a bull carrying the winged sun disk on a standard. On the right side of the scene, a king facing Ishtar and the god symbols, and an officer behind him are depicted. The king depiction, which is 1 m in length, is the biggest figure of the scene. The king wears a pointy royal cap. His hair and beard are contoured but not depicted in detail. His right hand is in the traditional reverence position showing the symbols and Ishtar. There is a mace with a knob on his left hand. He wears sandals and a short-sleeved tunic reaching to his ankles. The smooth-faced officer behind him wears a headband that is the kind of which high-ranked officers wear. The officer stands with his hands folded. It is interesting that the king's back was carved in order to place the officer's hands. There is a bracelet with rosette, though not clear, on his left wrist. He wears sandals like the king and a v-necked tunic reaching to his ankles. Unlike the king, the officer's hair is depicted in detail. Considering the stylistic features, it is possible to date the relief to the reign of Tiglath-Pileser III, the 8th century BC. The similarities between the Til-Barsip Stele suggest the possibility that both relief's were made by the same artisan. The fact that the king's back was carved and the hair was depicted in detail suggests that the officer behind the king was the one who has built the relief. Dur-Assur is referred as the governor of the region during the reign of Tiglath-Pileser III [Köroglu-Yumruk 2014:2-6]. |
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