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Young Mar Eshai Shimun with Surma and the Metropolitan of Shamsdin
The young Patriarch Mar Eshai Shimun (numbered XXI by Luke) stands on a balcony between his aunt Surma d'Bait Mar Shimun, holding a cane, and the bearded Metropolitan of Shamsdin. Plate VII of Harry Luke's Mosul and Its Minorities (1925), likely photographed in Iraq in 1924.
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Luke, Mosul and Its Minorities (1925), via Internet Archive
Harry Charles Luke (author; most photographs his own) · Published 1925; public domain in the US.
