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View of the temple of Rome and Augustus and the adjacent temple of Diana in Pula, Croatia. Between the two temples is situated the Communal Palace of Pula and the city prison. Next to the building, a guard and locals who are playing a game of marbles. In the middle ground, a soldier of Slavic ethnicity conversing with a young woman. On the left, a Polish woman with her donkey and small dog.
Tags: Ancient temples, Animals, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Costume - Hats and headwear, Croatia, Dogs, Domestic tasks, Donkeys, Ethnic groups, Games and toys, Istria, Marbles (game), Modes of transport, Pack animals, Polish people, Professions, Pula / anc. Polai, Roman monuments, Slovene-Croats (Istria), Social sphere and everyday life, Soldiers, Spinning, Temple of Diana (Pula), Temple of Rome and Augustus (Pula), Women
The facade of the Temple of Augustus and Rome in Pula, Croatia. The building on the right is the city prison. On the stairway of the temple, inhabitants of Dignano d'Istria, today Vodnjan, Croatia. In the foreground, locals of Pula, including a fishmonger and his assistant.
Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Children, Costume - Hats and headwear, Croatia, Everyday objects / Domestic utensils and vessels, Fishermen, Fishing, Istria, Professions, Pula / anc. Polai, Roman monuments, Scales, Social sphere and everyday life, Temple of Rome and Augustus (Pula), Vodnjan / Dignano d'Istria, Women
The Roman Amphitheatre of Pula from the west. Slovenian women are laundering their clothes in the sea. Inhabitants of the city come to take water or to water their animals at a gountain close to the amphitheatre.
Tags: Ancient theatres, Animals, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Boats and ships, Bovids, Carriages, Children, Costume - Hats and headwear, Croatia, Dogs, Domestic tasks, Donkeys, Ethnic groups, Horses, Istria, Oxen, Ports, Pula / anc. Polai, Roman monuments, Roman theatre of Pula, Slovene people, Social sphere and everyday life, Women
View of the Castle of Naples (Castel Nuovo).
Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Carriages, Castle of Naples / Castel Nuovo - Maschio Angioino, Castles and fortresses, Children, Costume - Hats and headwear, Horses, Italy, Lighthouses, Mount Vesuvius, Naples / Napoli / anc. Neapolis, Ports, Social sphere and everyday life, Southern Italy, Volcanoes, Women
View of the Choregic Monument of Thrasyllus (Church of Panagia Spiliotissa). Mount Hymettus in the background; at its feet the church of Agios Georgios Alexandrinos. The domed building on the right is the church of Agia Paraskevi, and between the church and the rock stands the metochion of Agioi Asomatoi monastery. The people gathered are waiting for the priest who is going to perform the service at Panagia Spiliotissa.
Tags: Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Children, Choregic monument of Thrasyllus (Panagia Spiliotissa), Choregic monuments, Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Greece, Greeks, Hagia Paraskevi (South Slope of Acropolis), Hagios Georgios of Alexandria, Metochion of Hagioi Asomatoi Monastery, Women
View of the Erechtheion. Workmen excavating to reveal the base of the prostasis underneath the Caryatids. Ottoman official Dizdar Aǧa is leaning on his son-in-law's shoulder while two other Ottomans are supervising the excavations in order to keep him informed and to ensure that the British are not carrying away the archaeological findings. On the foreground a man, probably James Stuart, drawing the monument.
Tags: Acropoleis, Acropolis of Athens, Animals, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Caryatids, Children, Costume - Hats and headwear, Digging tools, Dogs, Erechtheion, Ethnic groups, Europeans, Excavations, Greece, Horses, Houses, James Stuart, Ottoman officials, Ottomans, Painters / Engravers, Sheep, Smoking, Women, Writers
Northeast view of the Erechtheion.
Tags: Acropoleis, Acropolis of Athens, Africans, Animals, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Children, Costume - Hats and headwear, Digging tools, Dogs, Drums, Erechtheion, Ethnic groups, Fortifications and fortresses, Greece, Horses, James Stuart, Military officers, Musical instruments, Ottoman officials, Ottomans, Professions, Servants, Sheep, Smoking, Women
The Horologion of Andronikos Kyrristos (Tower of the Winds) in Athens, with the Acropolis in the background.
Seikh Mustafa, chief of the order of Whirling Dervishes, who used the monument as their tekije (dervish lodge), is standing at the entrance of the monument, leaning on a staff, with his back turned.
In the foreground, a woman from an affluent family is promenading with her daughters and maidservant.
Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Animals, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Children, Costume - Hats and headwear, Dervishes, Dogs, Ethnic groups, Greece, Greeks, Horologion of Andronikos Kyrristos / Tower of the Winds (Athens), Horses, Human types, Ottomans, Priests, Women
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