PhotographAA-0292

Townspeople on the walls of Mor Philoxenos, Midyat, 1911

Place: Midyat · today Türkiye
Date: 1911

Panorama of two photographs joined, showing the east end of the monastery church of Mor Philoxenos in Midyat with a crowd of townspeople standing along the top of its walls. Bell's caption: "Mar Philoxenus, Midyad"; 22 April 1911.

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Wikimedia Commons (from the Gertrude Bell Archive, Newcastle University, GB/3/1/18/1/190)

Gertrude Bell · Public domain

Townspeople on the walls of Mor Philoxenos, Midyat, 1911

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