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Album Name: Is II
Site: Īşa
Country: Turkey
Region: Cilicia, South-Central Turkey
Location: 37° 27’ N, 35° 07’ E
Cultures: Armenian
Author: Robert W. Edwards
Year(s): 1981
Description: B&W Photographs

	Image	Description
	Is II.1	view NW at the fortress of Īşa (Robert W. Edwards, 1981)
	Is II.3	view NE at entrance to fortress of Īşa (Robert W. Edwards, 1981)
	Is II.4	view NE at the entrance to the fortress of Īşa; note the two slot machicolations over the door (Robert W. Edwards, 1981)
	Is II.5	view up at a detail of the machicolation in the fortress of Īşa (Robert W. Edwards, 1981)
	Is II.6	view SW at the interior of the entrance in the fortress of Īşa (Robert W. Edwards, 1981)
	Is II.7	view NE at the jamb and slot for a crossbar bolt in entrance at the fortress of Īşa (Robert W. Edwards, 1981)
	Is II.8	view E at the base of the stairway which surmounts the entrance in the fortress of Īşa (Robert W. Edwards, 1981)
	Is II.9	view NW at the central landing of the stairway in the fortress of Īşa; the two slots in the machicolation are visible in the landing (Robert W. Edwards, 1981)
	Is II.10	view W at the upper end of the stairway and central landing in the fortress of Īşa (Robert W. Edwards, 1981)
	Is II.11	view S over the entrance with the bekçi in the fortress of Īşa (Robert W. Edwards, 1981)
	Is II.12	view E at the embrasure directly northeast of the entrance in the fortress of Īşa (Robert W. Edwards, 1981)
	Is II.13	view W at the interior of the west wall in the fortress of Īşa (Robert W. Edwards, 1981)
	Is II.14	view SW at the interior of the chapel in the fortress of Īşa; note the junction of the vault over the southwest wall (Robert W. Edwards, 1981)
	Is II.15	view S at the interior of the nave of the chapel in the fortress of Īşa; note the junction of the south and west walls (Robert W. Edwards, 1981)
	Is II.16	view N and up at the apse of the chapel in the fortress of Īşa (Robert W. Edwards, 1981)
	Is II.17	view N at the apsidal wall of the chapel in the fortress of Īşa; note the collapsed window and apsidal niche (Robert W. Edwards, 1981)
	Is II.18	view N into the northwest apsidal niche of the chapel at the fortress of Īşa (tape = 1 meter) (Robert W. Edwards, 1981)
	Is II.19	view SE at the collapsed southeast apsidal niche in the chapel at the fortress of Īşa; note the curious relief above the niche (Robert W. Edwards, 1981)
	Is II.20	view NE at a cross relief in the north jamb of the chapel door at the fortress of Īşa (Robert W. Edwards, 1981)
	Is II.21	view NE from the fortress of Īşa to the village of Şivişli (Robert W. Edwards, 1981)

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