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Photograph taken by Gertrude Bell in Saudi Arabia, January 1914

Description

Stone building. [The following quote probably applies to the image, but as no definite identification is made by Gertrude Bell, it cannot be attributed with full certainty] "A sort of a little khan on a khabra which had been walled round so as to form a birkey - I make no doubt that it was a menzil on the road from Ba'ir to Taimah. There was a Cufic inscription, dated, but alas I could not make it out with certainty. Anyhow there it is, the only ruin in these parts, good squared stones and mortar brought from far, and I have got it all down in my notebooks."

Reference code
GB/3/1/25/1/216
Creator
Bell, Gertrude Margaret Lowthian
Creation Date
Photograph Album Caption by Gertrude Bell
Kilweh
Former reference
Y_215
Photograph album
Location
IIIF Manifest
https://collectionscaptured.ncl.ac.uk/iiif/info/p21051coll153/6944/manifest.json