Photograph · IllustrationAA-0311

Wall painting of a Church of the East cleric, Samarra, 9th century

Place

Samarra · today Iraq

Date

9th century

Painted figure of a bearded cleric in a striped mantle, holding a vessel, from the palace of al-Mukhtar at Samarra, Iraq (837-839). The paintings were removed in 1911-13 and later almost all destroyed; this image is reproduced from Christoph Baumer's book.