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Bishop Severius Samuel of Mor Melke and priest Yusef Bahho, 1909

Place: Tur Abdin · today Türkiye
Date: 1909

Full-length portrait of the bishop of the monastery of Mor Melke, named by the archive as Severius Samuel, standing beside the priest Yusef Bahho on a stony hillside near Nusaybin. Bell's caption reads "Mar Melko, the Bishop"; 20 May 1909.

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Wikimedia Commons (from the Gertrude Bell Archive, Newcastle University, GB/3/1/13/1/152)

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Bishop Severius Samuel of Mor Melke and priest Yusef Bahho, 1909

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