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Gravestone carved with a hunting scene, Spurghan cemetery, Urmia

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Gravestone carved with a hunting scene, Spurghan cemetery, Urmia

Place: Urmia · today Iran

Village life Inscription

A chest-shaped gravestone in the Spurghan cemetery carved with a hunter and animals, framed by lattice and rosette patterns.

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Source

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

Eden Naby

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