The three numbers "598", "165" and "1653" appear in white ink on recto in what may be the hand of Antoin Sevruguin. The same numbers appear in the same locations in the gelatin silver print of the same image in the Myron Bement Smith collection of Antoin Sevruguin photographs held in the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.
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Page 298 of “Persia Past and Present” by A.V. Williams Jackson which was published by The Macmillan Company in London in 1906. The print is not attributed to Antoin Sevruguin and titled “Entrance to the Tomb of Darius”.
A gelatin silver print of the same image is in the Myron Bement Smith collection of Antoin Sevruguin photographs held in the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. The print was the gilf of Katherine Dennis Smith, 1973-1985 and has the reference number FSA A.4 2.12.Sm.10. The numbers "598", "165" and "1653" appear in white ink on recto in what may be the hand of Antoin Sevruguin. The same numbers appear in the same locations on the gelatin silver print of the same image in the Nelson collection.
The image is reproduced on page 100 of "The eye of the Shah Qajar court photography and the Persian past" published by the Institute for the study of the ancient world at New York University in 2015.