[Photo.53/(018)] View taken from the foot of the walls at the south of the citadel of the rocks which stretch out into the Achourian valley with the monastery built by Zachery

Stereoscopic photographs taken from the foot of the walls at the south of the citadel of the rocks which stretch out into the Achourian valley with the monastery built by Zachery (13th century): the best preserved ruin of the Arsehagounis and Bagratides together with the remaining walls built to shut off the passage down the valley. [Translated from the French original] The subject of the photographs is also described as ‘Kizkale peninsula seen from the citadel’.

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.