About the Destruction of Omid (Diyarbakir)
- Title
- About the Destruction of Omid (Diyarbakir)
- Creator
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Mor Jacob of Serugh
- Date
- 451-521 AD
- Description
- "The deceitful workers sent by Persia descended upon her, and with their swords they trampled her beautiful grapes, pressing her like clusters—the bodies of her children—and wine flowed within her, which the swords of Assyria pressed. Beautiful forms, beloved persons, were destroyed in the hasty trampling by captors when it was opened like a great winepress of blood."
- Language
- Syriac-Aramaic
- Item sets
- continuity
- Media
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