Fig. 2

Layard’s Fountain: The fountain built by the grandson J. Guest in memory of Archeologist Austen Henry Layard who has the leading study mentioning the Ezidis living in Kurukavak (Hamdûna), a village recognized within Batman today, has been preserved for many years and reached today despite it being waterless. It is quite ironic that the meaning of the name Kurukavak is arid poplar tree (Populus)