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"Bathers at the Ishker hot springs. The walls around Ramsar's numerous medicinal baths were built with local stone, and the healing benefit of the water is sometimes attributed to this radioactive building material. Ramsar, Iran, 2015"
"Bathers at the Ishker hot springs. The walls around Ramsar's numerous medicinal baths were built with local stone, and the healing benefit of the water is sometimes attributed to this radioactive building material. Ramsar, Iran, 2015"
Object Number 2019.5.1.33
Display Title "Bathers at the Ishker hot springs. The walls around Ramsar's numerous medicinal baths were built with local stone, and the healing benefit of the water is sometimes attributed to this radioactive building material. Ramsar, Iran, 2015"
Descriptions
Classification
  • Photographic
Department Photographic
Date 2015
Artist Chloe Dewe Mathews (2010)
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Asia / Iran / Mazandaran Province / Ramsar County / Ramsar
Materials Digital
Quantity 1
Credit Line Robert Gardner Fellow

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