Photograph·TIMEA 10027·1900

Heights of Hilarion

Grassy plain with scattered bushes and a small white building, with mountains rising in the distance
Photograph: 1900. Travelers in the Middle East Archive (TIMEA), Rice University, via Wikimedia Commons, TIMEA 10027. "Heights of Hilarion". CC BY-SA 2.5. Resized.

Description

Open, stony grassland fills the foreground, with clumps of low shrubs and bushes scattered across it. A pale single-storey building and a dirt track lie on the left beside a group of trees. Behind them a long mountain range rises, with a rounded peak on the right, under heavy clouds.

English

A wide grassy plain with scattered shrubs and low bushes runs toward a long range of mountains under a cloudy sky. A small white building sits at the left edge beside a track.

TIMEA's description

Plains stretching into silhouetted mountains. Black-and-white photograph.

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