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Visiting priest of the Nestorian (Assyrian) community at Jerwan

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Visiting priest of the Nestorian (Assyrian) community at Jerwan

Place: Jerwan
Date: 1930s

Clergy Portrait

Head-and-shoulders portrait of a long-bearded priest in a felt cap and woven tasselled vest, a chain around his neck, before a mud wall. Oriental Institute field negative titled "A visiting priest of the Nestorian community"; likely from the 1933 Jerwan work.

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