PHOTOGRAPH ARCHIVE · 1924–1925
Merv — Sultan Qala
View of the kepter khana (pigeon house) from the southwest, with fortification walls beyond. The ruins to the right were the palace of the Shahryar Ark. An approximate centre of the historic site of Merv is shown; the marker is not the camera position. Photograph: Ernst Cohn-Wiener. Source: British Museum.
- Subject
- Architecture and City Views
- Region
- Merv, Turkmenistan
- Image type
- Photograph
- Date
- 1924–1925
- Record number
- 1035843
- Coordinates
- 37.667647, 62.169690
- Record type
- Photograph
- Location evidence
- An approximate centre of the historic site of Merv is shown; the marker is not the camera position.
- Date note
- The source photograph record gives the date range 1924–1925; this is not the construction date.
- Collection
- World Archive ↗
- High resolution
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