The Tur 'Abdin is a mountainous region in the south-east of modern
Turkey, and is architecturally one of the most interesting areas
for the study of early Christian architecture. In two journeys into
the Tur 'Abdin early in this century, Gertrude Bell examined the
more important monastic sites. Her two reports on these journeys,
published in 1910 and 1913, made available for the first time a
full study of the Christian architecture of the region, and her
photographs are particularly valuable since many of the churches
have since been destroyed or suffered considerable damage. In the
present volume these two seminal studies are reprinted, with the
addition of over a hundred and twenty previously unpublished
photographs of these monuments from the Bell archive. Gertrude
Bell's text is printed as originally published, but has been
up-dated by Marlia Mundell Mango with extensive notes which draw
attention to subsequent work. The editor has also added an
extensive Catalogue of sites and monuments visited by Bell in and
around the Tur 'Abdin; this provides an alphabetical gazeteer to
all of the sites mentioned in Bell's text, and supplies information
about other sites and monuments visited by Bell, but of which she
did not publish her photographs. The entries in this sixty-page
Catalogue give the relevant information from Bell's published work
for each monument; a bibliography of other work on it; building
dates from inscriptions and texts; changes to the monument since
visited by Bell; and a short summary of publications on the
monument. Marlia Mundell Mango has also added a short glossary; a
list of dated monuments in the region from A.D. 200-1500; an
administrative list of provinces, metropolitan bishoprics and
bishoprics covering the ecclesiastical administration of the region
in late antiquity; a detailed map which incorporates most of this
new information; a bibliography with a survey of archaeological and
historical work on the Christian monuments of northern Mesopotamia
and a total of 256 of Bell's plates, of which 128 are published
here for the first time.
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