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Nestorian and Arab workmen with a jar found at Nimrud

Place: Mosul · today Iraq
Date: 1853

Wood engraving of two workmen, captioned as Nestorian and Arab, beside a large broken earthenware jar in an excavation tunnel at Nimrud. The kneeling man in a striped robe and felt cap is likely the Nestorian.

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Layard, Discoveries in the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon (1853), via Internet Archive

Layard, Austen Henry · Public domain in the United States (published before 1931)

Nestorian and Arab workmen with a jar found at Nimrud

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