PhotographAA-0295

Silver gospel cover at the Syriac church of the Virgin, Diyarbakir, 1911

Place: Diyarbakir · today Türkiye
Date: 1911

A gospel book bound in repoussé silver, showing the Resurrection, propped up at the Syriac Orthodox church of the Virgin (Meryem Ana) in Diyarbakir. Bell's caption: "El 'Adra"; May 1911.

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Wikimedia Commons (from the Gertrude Bell Archive, Newcastle University, GB/3/1/20/1/32)

Gertrude Bell · Public domain

Silver gospel cover at the Syriac church of the Virgin, Diyarbakir, 1911

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