Category: The Black Star Collection
Object Type: photograph
Photographer: GRISWALD, Lawrence
Title: Untitled
Event Date: 1949-05-08
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: overall: 19.4 cm x 24.15 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.117804

Inscriptions:
THE ASIA INSTITUTE/....The document affixed to the body of the executed man proves/ that his crime was no political one./ I submit a translation and an Arabic transcription which I showed/ without comment to a Syrian student of mine, for verification./ Some words are illegible on the photograph, but they do not de-/tract from the sense./ Translation:/ The criminal Muhammed b. Ahmas al-Hussain of the people of Maj'a committed the crim of killing Muhyi ad-Din as Sayyah of the people of aleppo in preparation for robbing him of his money/ and actually did rob him. The criminal court pronounced against/ him judgement of hanging on the date of 17/2/947 for actually killing, according to [illeg. symbols} 174 of the criminal code...949 according to the decree..of the...general for the army (?)..../ in truth./ For that happened the execution of the murdere....

Tagasauris Keywords: Cadaver; Capital punishment; Crime, law and justice; Crowd; Day; Full-Length Portrait; Group of people; Group of people; Hanging; Landscape; Male; Male and Female; No Photostyle; Outdoors; Panoramic; Rope; Unrest, conflicts and war; World War II; Young adult
Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: WWII FRANCE / TRAITOR (TRIALS) EXECUTIONS
Retouching: N