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Syriac inscription in the convent of St. Mark, Jerusalem

Place: Jerusalem
Date: 1940s

A framed Syriac inscription set into a stone wall at the church of St. Mark on Mount Zion, captioned by the photographers as a "Syrian or Syriac inscription found under plaster about 1520 A.D."

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Library of Congress, G. Eric and Edith Matson Photograph Collection

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Syriac inscription in the convent of St. Mark, Jerusalem

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