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Assyrian woman from Persia in traditional dress

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Assyrian woman from Persia in traditional dress

Place
Persia · today Iran
Portrait

Oval portrait of an Assyrian woman from Persia wearing a jewelled headband under a white veil and an embroidered jacket.

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Source

Internet Archive (community upload, scanned from Solomon Sawa Solomon, The Indestructible Assyrians: A Photo History of Modern Assyrians, 2010)

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