File RAS GOV7/13 - Extract from a letter addressed by Major Rawlinson, Bisitun (Bīsotūn), 20 July 1847

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GB 891 RAS GOV7-RAS GOV7/13

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Extract from a letter addressed by Major Rawlinson, Bisitun (Bīsotūn), 20 July 1847

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  • 20th Jul 1847 (Creation)

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2 pages handwritten

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'Extract from a letter addressed by Major Rawlinson to Mr Norris, dated Bisitun, 20 July 1847' in which he writes of his arrival a week previously and the collecting of scaffolding and ladders in order to examine the great sculpture. He writes that heread more

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  • English

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