PhotographAA-0434

Mar Eshai Shimun with Mar Zaya Sargis and Dawid d'Mar Shimun, 1933

Place: Iraq
Date: 1933

Studio portrait taken shortly before the events of 1933: seated, left to right, Bishop Mar Zaya Sargis of Jilu, Patriarch Mar Eshai Shimun and Rab Khayla Dawid d'Mar Shimun; standing is Shlimon d'Matran, the patriarch's maternal uncle and secretary.

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Internet Archive (subject assyrian-archive; scans from S. S. Solomon, The Indestructible Assyrians, 2010)

Mar Eshai Shimun with Mar Zaya Sargis and Dawid d'Mar Shimun, 1933

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