Prisoners executed by torture in Persia. On the left, a woman is killed after the executioner has placed a rabid cat under her clothes. At the centre, prisoner tortured with hot irons.

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THEVENOT, Jean de

Title

Prisoners executed by torture in Persia. On the left, a woman is killed after the executioner has placed a rabid cat under her clothes. At the centre, prisoner tortured with hot irons.

Date

1727

Bibliographic Citation

THEVENOT, Jean de. Suite du Voyage de Mr. De Thévenot au Levant, dans laquelle, après plusieurs remarques très-singulieres sur les particularitez de l'Egypte, de la Syrie, de la Mesopotamie, de l'Euphrate & du Tigre, il est traité de la Perse, & autres Etats sujets au Roi de Perse, ainsi que de sa cour, & de religions, gouvernemens, moeurs, forces, langues, sciences, arts & coutumes des peuples de ce grand empire; Et ainsi des antiquitez Tschehelminar, de Nakschi Rustan & autres lieux vers l'ancienne Persepolis: & particulierement de la route exacte de ce grand voyage, tant par terre en Turquie & en Perse, que par Mer dans la Mediterranée, Golfe Persique & Mer des Indes. Troisième edition, vol. III, Amsterdam, Michel Charles le Céne, M. DCC. XXVII. [=1727].

Identifier

thevenot2_34

Spatial Coverage

Iran / Persia

Subject

Social sphere and everyday life

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THEVENOT, Jean de, “Prisoners executed by torture in Persia. On the left, a woman is killed after the executioner has placed a rabid cat under her clothes. At the centre, prisoner tortured with hot irons.,” travelogues, accessed November 21, 2024, https://english.travelogues.gr/items/show/56889.