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Gravestone carved with folk dancers, Spurghan cemetery, Urmia

Place: Urmia · today Iran

A chest-shaped gravestone in the Assyrian cemetery of Spurghan, its side panel carved with a row of dancing figures inside a border of geometric patterns.

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

Eden Naby

Gravestone carved with folk dancers, Spurghan cemetery, Urmia

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