Karasu relief

The relief is located near the town of Gümüşpınar near Akbudak in the district of Araban, Gaziantep Province, Turkey, on a cliff-face about 200 m above the Karasu river, about three km from where it meets the Euphrates.

In the early first millennium BC the border between the Iron Age kingdoms of Kummuh (later Commagene) and Carchemish was located in the area.

The relief was discovered by geologists Krummanacher and Wilson in 1956 and first published by Charles A. Burney and Gordon R. J. Lawson in 1958.

On the back of the dear, there is a 1.2 m high male figure facing left and wearing a short kilt and shoes.

The motif of the "god on the deer" is already known attested at Assyrian trade outposts and the Hittite empire at the beginning of the 2nd millennium BC.

It was part of the military road which led from Zeugma to Samosata and was located south of the Monumental graves at Elif, Hisar und Hasanoğlu.