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Mar Emmanuel II, Chaldean Patriarch of Babylon, about 1924

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Mar Emmanuel II, Chaldean Patriarch of Babylon, about 1924

Place
Mosul · today Iraq
Date
1920s
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Mar Emmanuel II, Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans, stands in full robes beside a carved throne. His signature in Syriac script is reproduced beneath the photograph. Plate IV of Harry Luke's Mosul and Its Minorities (1925); most of the book's photographs were taken by Luke himself.

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Source

Luke, Mosul and Its Minorities (1925), via Internet Archive

Harry Charles Luke (author; most photographs his own) · Published 1925; public domain in the US.

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