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Urartian walls of Ishak Pasha
About this photograph
- Creator
- Margery H. Freeman
- Date created
- May 1993
- Location
- Dogubayazit, Turkey
- License
- This photograph copyright ©1993. Terms of use
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Tall brick walls are built into the craggy rock outside the Ishak Pasha palace, likely as protection from invaders during the time the palace was in use. The walls in the rock have round towers in them, and they are interspersed along the rocky mountainside. The mountain goes diagonally top left to bottom right across the photo, and there is another mountain across the top of the photo in the background. The photo is taken in the day, with light over the diagonal mountain and shadow across the mountain and hill in the background. In the foreground there is a building that has a tower and a copper dome. The building is several stories high and only has windows on the top two levels below the dome. It is made of the same bricks the walls in the rock are made of.
