Photograph · IllustrationAA-0611

Door of the patriarchs' mortuary chapel, Deir el-Zafaran

Place: Mardin · today Türkiye
Date: 1895

Pen-and-ink drawing of the richly carved stone doorway of the mortuary chapel of the Syriac Orthodox patriarchs at Deir el-Zafaran, with handwritten Syriac lettering beside it.

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Parry, Six Months in a Syrian Monastery (1895), via Internet Archive (Columbia University microfilm)

Parry, Oswald Hutton · Public domain in the United States (published before 1931)

Door of the patriarchs' mortuary chapel, Deir el-Zafaran

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