The relief is located in a niche about 100-120 m up a granite cliff-face of
Mount Sipylus, overlooking the city of Manisa, the ancient
Lydian city of
Magnesia ad Sipylum, and the
Gediz river valley (the ancient Hermos). It is over 6 m high and in poor condition. A seated figure 8-10 m high is depicted in high relief (but not completely separated from the cliff face), who looks northwards and wears a tall pointed headdress. Its hands seem to rest on its breasts, the feet rest atop a footstool. The head has partly cleaved away, from natural causes. Two remnants of
Luwian hieroglyphic inscriptions are visible to the right of his head, which indicate that the relief dates to the Hittite period.
Cecil John Cadoux thought a date in the time of
Suppiluliuma I or his son
Mursili II (i.e. 14th century BC) was probable.
Helmuth Theodor Bossert read the leftmost inscription (Akpınar 1) as "Prince Kuwalanamuwa", the same name which is found on the
Hanyeri relief and
İmamkullu relief, but it is unclear whether all the three refer to the same individual. If they do, the prince under discussion must have been extremely influential, as there are no other individuals, except for Hittite kings, whose reliefs accompanied by hieroglyphic inscriptions are found in three distinct locations in Asia Minor. The right inscription (Akpınar 2) was not legible to
Hans Gustav Güterbock, who studied the relief with R.A. Alexander in 1978. == Reception ==