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- Permanent Link:
- https://digital.soas.ac.uk/LOAC000284/00001
Material Information
- Title:
- Teheran, the capital of Persia
- Series Title:
- Sketches in Persia
- Donor:
- Dr. Cyrus Ala'i
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Publisher:
- The Illustrated London News
- Publication Date:
- 1873
- Language:
- English
- Materials:
- Paper ( medium )
- Technique:
- Engraving
Subjects
- Subjects / Keywords:
- Cemeteries ( lcsh )
Dokhmas ( lcsh )
دخمه
گورستان
آسیا -- ایران -- استان تهران -- تهران
- Spatial Coverage:
- Asia -- Iran -- Tehran Province -- Tehran
- Coordinates:
- 35.696111 x 51.423056
Notes
- General Note:
- Published in The Illustrated London News on 21 June 1873 (page 584)
- General Note:
- Depicts a Parsi dakhoma in the foreground. The Parsi, or Parsee, is a Zoroastrian community. The Parsi burial ground, dakhma or dokhma (from Middle Persian dakhmag) , often referred to as a Tower of Silence in English, is a circular, raised structure for excarnation built by Zoroastrians for the transfer of the dead to birds
Record Information
- Source Institution:
- SOAS University of London
- Holding Location:
- Archives and Special Collections
- Rights Management:
 This item is licensed with the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commerical License. This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon this work non-commercially, and although their new works must also acknowledge the author and be non-commercial, they don’t have to license their derivative works on the same terms.- Resource Identifier:
- MCA/01/03/07 ( soas archives reference number )
MCA/E/7 ( collector's reference )
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