PHOTOGRAPH ARCHIVE · 1924–1925
Samarkand — Shah-i Zinda Complex
View from the south of the corridor, with the anon. mausoleum I ("Ustad Alim") on the left, the portal fragment of anon. mausoleum II ("Ulugh Sultan Begum") to its right, followed by the Amir Burundug mausoleum and the dome of the Tuman Aqa mausoleum beyond 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
- 1036363
- 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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