[Photo.53/(041)] The Hall of the so-called Council of Bagratides

Stereoscopic photographs showing the Hall of the so-called Council of Bagratides (see figure 21) [Photo.53/(021)], parts of the destroyed walls and of the flat ceiling with Mussirian ornaments from which we see in the distance the rock called Diana in the valley of Achurian and the lower part of the citadel of Ani. [Translated from the French original]. Also described as ‘The mosque, interior seen from the north-east corner’.

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.