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Album Name: Ss III
Site: Sis
Country: Turkey
Region: Cilicia, South-Central Turkey
Location: 37° 27’ N, 35° 48’ E
Cultures: Arab, Armenian, Byzantine, Mamluk
Author: Robert W. Edwards
Year(s): 1979
Description: B&W Photographs

	Image	Description
	Ss III.1	view N at the exterior of Tower B, Gatehouse A, and Tower N in the castle of Sis (Robert W. Edwards, 1979)
	Ss III.2	view SW at the exterior of Gatehouse A in the castle of Sis (Robert W. Edwards, 1979)
	Ss III.3	view SW at the exterior of the (outer) northeast door of Gatehouse A in the castle of Sis (Robert W. Edwards, 1979)
	Ss III.4	view NE at the interior of Gatehouse A in the castle of Sis (Robert W. Edwards, 1979)
	Ss III.5	view SE at the interior of an embrasure in Gatehouse A in the castle of Sis (tape = 1 meter) (Robert W. Edwards, 1979)
	Ss III.6	view NE at the exterior of the (inner) southwest door in Gatehouse A at the castle of Sis (Robert W. Edwards, 1979)
	Ss III.7	view SW from the southwest door of Gatehouse A to the west door of Tower B in the castle of Sis (Robert W. Edwards, 1979)
	Ss III.8	view SW at Postern Gate D (northeast corner of Gatehouse A at lower right) in the castle of Sis (Robert W. Edwards, 1979)
	Ss III.9	view S at the exterior of Poster Gate D (note machicolation that was later filled) in the castle of Sis (Robert W. Edwards, 1979)
	Ss III.10	view down and NE from Tower M to Undercroft E in the castle of Sis (Robert W. Edwards, 1979)
	Ss III.11	view down and S to Tower H from Tower M in the castle of Sis (Robert W. Edwards, 1979)
	Ss III.12	view SW at the northeast door in Complex I in the castle of Sis (Robert W. Edwards, 1979)
	Ss III.13	view NW at the base of the northwest door in Complex I in the castle of Sis (Robert W. Edwards, 1979)
	Ss III.14	view N at the interior of Chamber L in the castle of Sis (Robert W. Edwards, 1979)
	Ss III.15	view NE at the interior of Chamber L in the castle of Sis (Robert W. Edwards, 1979)
	Ss III.16	view S at the interior of Chamber L in the castle of Sis (Robert W. Edwards, 1979)
	Ss III.17	view E at the interior of Tower M in the castle of Sis (Robert W. Edwards, 1979)
	Ss III.18	view S at an Armenian inscription on the interior of the south wall of Tower M in the castle of Sis (Robert W. Edwards, 1979)
	Ss III.19	view N from Tower M toward Complex I in the castle of Sis (Robert W. Edwards, 1979)
	Ss III.20	view S from Chamber U to Towers O, N and B and Gatehouse A in the castle of Sis (Robert W. Edwards, 1979)
	Ss III.21	view W at the exterior of the wall and embrasures near the outer door of Gatehouse A in the castle of Sis (Robert W. Edwards, 1979)
	Ss III.22	view E at the interior of the embrasure directly southwest of the outer door of Gatehouse A in the castle of Sis (Robert W. Edwards, 1979)
	Ss III.23	view E at the exterior of Tower N in the castle of Sis (Robert W. Edwards, 1979)
	Ss III.24	view N at the exterior of the wall between Towers N and O in the castle of Sis (Robert W. Edwards, 1979)
	Ss III.25	view SE at the interior of the machicolation between Towers N and O in the castle of Sis (Robert W. Edwards, 1979)
	Ss III.26	view N at the top of small salient directly east of Chamber P and the flanking wall with corbels in the castle of Sis (Robert W. Edwards, 1979)
	Ss III.27	view NE at the interior of the small salient directly east of Chamber P in the castle of Sis (Robert W. Edwards, 1979)
	Ss III.28	view NE at the interior of the circuit wall (with corbel) directly east of Chamber P in the castle of Sis (Robert W. Edwards, 1979)
	Ss III.29	view N at the interior of Chamber U in the castle of Sis (Robert W. Edwards, 1979)
	Ss III.30	view W at Chamber V in the castle of Sis (Robert W. Edwards, 1979)
	Ss III.31	view SE at the interior of the apsidal wall of Building S (Robert W. Edwards, 1979)
	Ss III.32	view SE into the east room of Chamber X in the castle of Sis (with Peter Kasavan) (Robert W. Edwards, 1979)
	Ss III.33	view NE into the east room of Chamber X (detail of scarped walls) in the castle of Sis (Robert W. Edwards, 1979)
	Ss III.34	view SE into the west room of Chamber X in the castle of Sis (Robert W. Edwards, 1979)
	Ss III.35	view SE into the west room of Chamber X in the castle of Sis (Robert W. Edwards, 1979)
	Ss III.36	view SW over the south third of the castle of Sis (Robert W. Edwards, 1979)
	Ss III.37	view NW over the north third of the castle of Sis (Robert W. Edwards, 1979)
	Ss III.39	view NE at the east towers of A in the Lower Terrace of Sis (Robert W. Edwards, 1979)
	Ss III.40	view E at the southeast tower of A in the Lower Terrace of Sis (tape = 1 meter) (Robert W. Edwards, 1979)
	Ss III.41	view NE at the northeast tower of A in the Lower Terrace of Sis (Robert W. Edwards, 1979)
	Ss III.42	view NW at Salient C in the Lower Terrace of Sis (Robert W. Edwards, 1979)
	Ss III.43	view NW along the curtain wall flanking tower D in the castle of Sis (Robert W. Edwards, 1979)
	Ss III.44	view W at the central Apse E in the Church of Gregory the Illuminator (originally the medieval St. Sophia) in the Lower Terrace of Sis (Robert W. Edwards, 1979)

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