The Assyrian Rock Relief at Yaǧmur (Evrihan) in the Tur Abdin

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.

Preface ;



The Assyrian Rock Relief at Yaǧmur in the Tur Abdin ;


The Mazıdağı Plain ;


Yağmur ;


The Assyrian relief at Yağmur ;


Geographical names ;


Dating ;


Assyrian reliefs with images of multiple kings ;


Tiglath-pileser I’s campaigns in the Nairi lands ;


Settlement geography of the Kašiari in Assyrian sources ;


Conclusion ;



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