[Photo.53/(003)] Main Gate of the fortifications

Stereoscopic photographs of the main gate of the fortifications of Ani. Piles of ruins can be seen in front of this gate. Church and mountains to the south-west of Ani. [Translated from the French original]. The subject of the photographs is also described as ‘Arch and flanking towers of the ‘Lion Gate’. 

Two identical 8.5 x 7.5 cm photographs taken by Onnes Kurkdjian in the 1870s and mounted on card.

Part of a set of 38 cards with stereoscopic photographs. Each card has the title ‘Collection “Ruines of Armenia: Ani; the capital of the Bagratides” by [facsimile of Kurkidjian’s signature], Erevan’ in French and Armenian. The cards have no captions but are hand numbered 1 to 42 and the subject of each card is listed in the accompanying booklets one of which is in French and German and the other in Armenian. The booklets note that the photographs for cards 11 and 12 were lost and, consequently, these cards were replaced with cards 41 and 42. Cards 9 and 10 are missing from this collection.