PHOTOGRAPH ARCHIVE · 1924–1925
Samarkand — Mausoleum of 1361
View of the left side of the façade. The cylindrical semi-attached column marks the corner of the entrance portal on the right. The narrow diagonal brick section at left attaches the façade with that of the perpendicular Khvajeh Ahmed mausoleum An approximate settlement centre is shown for Samarkand; the marker is not the camera position. Photograph: Ernst Cohn-Wiener. Source: British Museum.
- Subject
- Architecture and City Views
- Region
- Samarkand, Uzbekistan
- Image type
- Photograph
- Date
- 1924–1925
- Record number
- 1036178
- Coordinates
- 39.654560, 66.964450
- Record type
- Photograph
- Location evidence
- An approximate settlement centre is shown for Samarkand; 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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