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Shim'un, brother of Kasha Mattai, beside an Assyrian rock relief

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Shim'un, brother of Kasha Mattai, beside an Assyrian rock relief

Place: Cizre
Date: 1909

Portrait Inscription

A young man in a white-sleeved shirt and striped trousers stands beside a weathered rock-cut Assyrian stele inscribed with cuneiform. Gertrude Bell's archive identifies him as Shim'un, brother of Kas Mattai, pastor of the Protestant Nestorians, on 14 May 1909.

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Source

Gertrude Bell Archive, Newcastle University

Gertrude Bell · CC BY-SA 4.0

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