"Roman bridge, Eski Mosul, with policeman on the right. Cat. Stein LHAS Photo 23/1 (38).
Photo by the Hungarian-British archaeologist Aurel Stein reconstructing the route of Alexander the Great in Persia, 1930s.
First publication: the Aurel Stein site of the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences prepared by us, April 2008."
From the ever-interesting Poemas del rio Wang, which has a second photo (?of the same bridge). I presume there was some sort of ramp structure or additional arches, and that the working bridge would have looked something like this one:
The Iraqi bridge is very cool, but I presume it is probably long gone now.
Thank you for the reference, Stan! Yes, I also think it had this kind of ramp, with the difference that in Mesopotamia/Iraq, where stone must have been an expensive commodity, only the arch was made of stone, and the ramp of earth or clay, that’s why it has gone while the bridge survived until the 1930s when Aurel Stein took this photo. (I do not know anything about its present conditions: it may well have gone.)
ReplyDeleteIt looks a lot like the Ottoman bridge at Mostar.http://ottomanblog.wordpress.com/2010/10/02/top-10-greatest-ottoman-artists-of-all-time/the-reconstructed-old-bridge-of-mostar-over-the-river-neretva/
ReplyDeleteWow - that's a beautiful bridge.
ReplyDeleteIt is regarded as a historical and architectonic model for Nobel-winner Ivo Andrić’s Bridge over the Drina river.
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