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Syriac gravestone of a Church of the East metropolitan, Spurghan, 1569

Place: Urmia · today Iran

A weathered stone in the cemetery of Spurghan (Supurghan) on the Urmia plain, carved with lines of Syriac script commemorating a metropolitan of the Church of the East; the source dates the stone 1569.

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Harvard University, Fine Arts Library, Eden Naby Photograph Collection II: Assyrian Architecture in Iran

Eden Naby

Syriac gravestone of a Church of the East metropolitan, Spurghan, 1569

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