English: Part of a rock relief depicting Tiglath-Pileser I (c. 1114 -1079 BC). The cuneiform text left of the king (not entirely in this image) identify him as "Tukultī-apil-Ešarra king of Ashur, son of Ashur-resh-ishi king of Ashur, son of Mutakkil-Nusku king of Ashur". The inscription was discovered inside a natural cave at the spot called Birkleyn or "The Tigris Tunnel" in 1862. source: British Museum [1]
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