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Image View Description:

Exterior: Valley and the monastery

Date:

Early 7th century

Location:

Alqosh (Iraq)

Work Type:

architecture

Material / Technique:

limestone

Culture:

Assyrian-Chaldean

Creator:

St. Hormizd

Creator Nationality:

Persian

Creator Dates:

Late 6th to the 7th century

Creator Role:

patron

Photographer:

Serdar Yalcin

Notes:

The monastery experienced several restorations and extensions since its first construction in the early 7th century.

Image Source:

Photography by the Media Center for Art History, Department of Art History and Archeology, Columbia University

Record ID:

1314_iraq2013_strabbanhormizd_vr_10