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The interior of the temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae.

Tags: Ancient temples, Animals, Arcadia, Art and antiquities, Bassae, Children, Costume - Hats and headwear, Figaleia, Greece, Human types, Peloponnese, Sheep, Temple of Apollo Epicurius (Bassae)

Title page. Archaeological excavations at the temple of Apollo Epicurius in Bassae, conducted by the team of Western European archaeophiles who eventually pillaged all of the reliefs and sculptures of the temple.

Tags: Arcadia, Art and antiquities, Bassae, Costume - Hats and headwear, Excavations, Figaleia, Greece, Human types, Peloponnese, Remains, Temple of Apollo Epicurius (Bassae), Tents, Title page

View of the mausoleums of Qutb Shahi dynasty at Golkonda, India.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, French, Funerary monuments, Golkonda, Human types, India, Indians, Mausoleums, Qutb Shahi dynasty, Religious practices, Sultans

A woman is thrown into her husband's funeral pyre, India.

Tags: Costume - Hats and headwear, Funerary monuments, Human types, India, Music, Musical instruments, Musicians, Religious practices, Rites of passage, Social sphere and everyday life, Women

Acrobats performing on the street at the city of Amer, India.

Tags: Acrobats, Amer, Costume - Hats and headwear, Cultural activities, Human types, India, Social sphere and everyday life, Women

Death of an Indian fakir on the shores of Ganges river.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Baskets, Costume - Hats and headwear, Fruit, Ganges river, Houses, Human types, India, Priests, Religious practices, Rites of passage, Rivers, Social sphere and everyday life

Celebration of the feast of Huli in Kabul. The feast, a remnant of pagan cults, lasted the two days of the full moon of February. On the second day, the inhabitants of Kabul would gather at the central square and destroy a gigantic effigy made especially for this festivity. The feast closed as a child, symbol of the new-born god, shot his arrows at the giant's heart.

Tags: Afghanistan, Architecture and built environment, Children, Costume - Hats and headwear, Festivities / Celebrations, Houses, Human types, Kabul, Leisure, Religious practices, Social sphere and everyday life

Woman bandit on the route from Agra to Delhi.

Tags: Agra, Animals, Bandits, Costume - Hats and headwear, Delhi, Ethnic groups, Horses, Human types, India, Indians, Social sphere and everyday life, Travel, Women

Local costumes of Agra, India.

Tags: Agra, Architecture and built environment, Costume - Hats and headwear, Houses, Human types, India, Shoes and footwear, Social sphere and everyday life, Women

Celebration at the streets of Visapur, India, for the wedding of the daughter of the local governor.

Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Costume - Hats and headwear, Elephants, Festivities / Celebrations, Fireworks, Human types, India, Leisure, Music, Musical instruments, Musicians, Social sphere and everyday life, Visapur, Wedding ceremonies

Preparation of palm wine, known as tari in Hindi and as tadi to British colonists, out of coconuts.

Tags: Agricultural tools, Coconuts, Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, French, Human types, India, Indians, Natural environment, Plants, Professions, Social sphere and everyday life

The mausoleum of Muslim saint Shah Alam in Ahmedabad, India.

Tags: Ahmedabad, Architecture and built environment, Baskets, Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, French, Funerary monuments, Human types, India, Mausoleum of Shah Alam, Mosques, Religious practices, Sufi orders

Ruy Freire de Andrade, 17th-century Portuguese naval commander and colonist, throws into a boiling cauldron the new-born baby of a family native to the Persian gulf islands.

Tags: Boats and ships, Children, Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Human types, Officials, Persia / Iran, Persian gulf, Portuguese, Ruy Freire de Andrade, Social sphere and everyday life, State and military institutions - Diplomatic relations, Torture, Women

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.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Captives, Costume - Hats and headwear, Human types, Persia / Iran, Social sphere and everyday life, Torture, Women

A prisoner is executed by torture on the orders of Shah Abbas in Persia. On the right, a Portuguese merchant turns his head away from the horrendous sight.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Captives, Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Human types, Persia / Iran, Persians, Portuguese, Shah, Social sphere and everyday life, Torture

Preparation of lime for construction purposes, Persia.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, French, Houses, Human types, Persia / Iran, Persians, Professions, Social sphere and everyday life

Game of Persian cricket at a public square in Isfahan, as watched by the author.

Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Costume - Hats and headwear, Equids, Ethnic groups, French, Horses, Houses, Human types, Isfahan / anc. Aspadana, Persia / Iran, Persians, Social sphere and everyday life, Sports

The lunar eclipse which the author watched during his stay at Mosul. In the foreground a mullah explains to a Western European, possibly the author himself, the high importance of this phaenomenon to Muslims.

Tags: Arabs, Architecture and built environment, Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, French, Houses, Human types, Irak, Lunar eclipses, Mosul, Natural phenomena, Prayer, Priests, Religious practices, Social sphere and everyday life

Soldiers and guilds parade during the festivities which customarily took place when an Ottoman prince was born. The author had occasion to watch such a parade during his stay in Aleppo.

Tags: Aleppo, Arabs, Architecture and built environment, Children, Costume - Hats and headwear, Cultural activities, Festivities / Celebrations, French, Houses, Human types, Military parades, Ottomans, Social sphere and everyday life, Soldiers, Syria, Turks

Preparation of wine at Aleppo, Syria.

Tags: Aleppo, Children, Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Everyday objects / Domestic utensils and vessels, French, Human types, Interiors, Professions, Social sphere and everyday life, Syria, Wine, Women

Water cisterns in Kteifa, town at the outskirts of Damascus. According to the author the cisterns provided water to the inn of the city and were also used as water troughs for domestic animals.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Cisterns / Reservoirs, Costume - Hats and headwear, Damascus, Everyday objects / Domestic utensils and vessels, Human types, Inns, Kteifa, Social sphere and everyday life, Syria, Women

The fountain at the courtyard of Sinan Pasha mosque in Damascus.

Tags: Arabs, Architecture and built environment, Costume - Hats and headwear, Damascus, Fountains / Springs, French, Human types, Mosques, Ottoman architecture, Ottoman monuments, Religious practices, Sinan Pasha Mosque (Damascus), Social sphere and everyday life, Syria

Preparation of wine at Rosetta, Egypt.

Tags: Arabs, Costume - Hats and headwear, Economic activities, Egypt, Ethnic groups, French, Fruit, Professions, Rashid / anc. Rosetta, Social sphere and everyday life, Viticulture

View of the catacombs of Alexandria.

Tags: Alexandria, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Castles and fortresses, Catacombs, Costume - Hats and headwear, Egypt, Ethnic groups, French, Funerary monuments, Human types

The author's ship is attacked by three privateer ship outside Tunis.

Tags: Boats and ships, Costume - Hats and headwear, Human types, Pirates and privateers, Social sphere and everyday life, State and military institutions - Diplomatic relations, Travel, Tunis, Tunisia

Ways in which captives are tortured in Egypt.

Tags: Animals, Art and antiquities, Camels, Captives, Costume - Hats and headwear, Egypt, Ethnic groups, Pyramids, Social sphere and everyday life, State and military institutions - Diplomatic relations, Torture

The Bey (Ottoman official) of Upper Egypt , enters in Cairo.

Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Cairo, Costume - Hats and headwear, Egypt, Equids, Horses, Mosques, Music, Musical instruments, Musicians, Ottoman officials, Processions, Social sphere and everyday life, State and military institutions - Diplomatic relations, Weapons

Privateers attacking a ship.

Tags: Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Social sphere and everyday life, State and military institutions - Diplomatic relations

The interior of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem: a priest distributes the Holy Fire.

Tags: Churches, Costume - Hats and headwear, Easter, Festivities / Celebrations, Holy Fire, Holy Sepulchre, Human types, Interiors, Israel, Jerusalem, Palestine, Priests, Religious practices, Social sphere and everyday life

Reception of a caravan comprised of officials on a pilgrimage at a convent in Jerusalem.

Tags: Baths, Carpets, Costume - Hats and headwear, Furniture, Human types, Interiors, Israel, Jerusalem, Monasteries, Monks, Palestine, Pilgrimages, Pilgrims, Priests, Religious practices, Social sphere and everyday life, Travel

The author travelling in Egypt on a camel. In the foreground, Arab companions of the author give alimony to a man in need.

Tags: Animals, Arabs, Author portraits, Beggars, Camels, Costume - Hats and headwear, Egypt, Ethnic groups, French, Human types, Jean de Thévenot, Ostrichs, Social sphere and everyday life, Travel

The Nilometer, square cistern with a marble column, used to measure the levels o the Nile in Egypt.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Cairo, Costume - Hats and headwear, Egypt, Houses, Human types, Nile river, Nilometer (Cairo), Rivers, Social sphere and everyday life

The author's travelling companions study a mummy at a pyramid of Memphis in Egypt.

Tags: Arabs, Art and antiquities, Costume - Hats and headwear, Egypt, Ethnic groups, French, Human types, Memphis, Mummies, Ottomans, Pyramids, Turks

Scene from the siege of Rhodes, 1522.

Tags: Aegean islands, Animals, Boats and ships, Costume - Hats and headwear, Dodecanese, Greece, History, Horses, Medieval old town of Rhodes, Ottoman army, Ottoman officials, Rhodes, Siege of Rhodes (1522), State and military institutions - Diplomatic relations

Scene from the Janissaries' revolt against Grand Vizier Ibsir Pasha in 1655. The Sultan receives the Janissaries' claims; at the same the dead body of the Chief Eunuch of the Harem is surrendered to the insurgents through the palace window.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Costume - Hats and headwear, Eunuchs, History, Human types, Istanbul, Janissaries, Ottoman monuments, Social sphere and everyday life, State and military institutions - Diplomatic relations, Sultans, Thrace, Topkapi Palace (Topkapı Sarayı), Turkey

Festivities at the port of Istanbul, to celebrate the construction of a new ship.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Boats and ships, Costume - Hats and headwear, Cultural activities, Festivities / Celebrations, Human types, Istanbul, Mosques, Music, Musical instruments, Musicians, Ports, Social sphere and everyday life, Thrace, Turkey

Muslim funeral in Istanbul.

Tags: Costume - Hats and headwear, Funerary monuments, Human types, Istanbul, Muslim cemeteries, Ottoman cemeteries, Religious practices, Rites of passage, Social sphere and everyday life, Thrace, Turkey, Women

Leisure scene at the streets of Istanbul during the Bayram feast.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Bayram, Costume - Hats and headwear, Festivities / Celebrations, Human types, Istanbul, Leisure, Mosques, Music, Musical instruments, Musicians, Religious practices, Social sphere and everyday life, Thrace, Turkey

Fountain at the remains of church near the sea walls of Topkapi palace in Istanbul. According to the author, the Greek Orthodox of Istanbul would come to the fountain on the feast of the Transfiguration. Several of them would bury themselves in the sand and then drink from the holy fountain, thus realizing a symbolic transfiguration.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Feast of the Transfiguration, Festivities / Celebrations, Fountains / Springs, Greeks, Holy springs, Human types, Istanbul, Mosques, Ottoman palaces, Religious practices, Thrace, Topkapi Palace (Topkapı Sarayı), Turkey, Walls of Constantinople

Portrait of author Jean de Thevenot in oriental costume.

Tags: Author portraits, Coats of arms – Emblems, Costume - Hats and headwear, Furniture, Globes, Interiors, Jean de Thévenot, Maps

Frontispiece with themes related to the author's journey.

Tags: Animals, Baskets, Camels, Caravans, Costume - Hats and headwear, Egypt, Ethnic groups, Frontispieces, Human types, Maps, Travel, Turkey

View of Vienna from the southeast.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Austria, Churches, Costume - Hats and headwear, Houses, Human types, Professions, Soldiers, St Stephen's Cathedral (Vienna), Vienna, Views

Romani of Banat, historical region of Central Europe (shared between Hungary, Serbia and Romania) washing gold.

Tags: Banat, Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Human types, Hungary, Mines, Professions, Romani, Romania, Serbia, Social sphere and everyday life, Women

View of the interior of Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, from the central nave looking towards the entrance.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Byzantine architecture, Byzantine monuments, Carpets, Costume - Hats and headwear, Hagia Sophia (Istanbul), Human types, Interiors, Istanbul, Thrace, Turkey, Views

Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, from the northwest.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Byzantine architecture, Byzantine monuments, Costume - Hats and headwear, Hagia Sophia (Istanbul), Human types, Istanbul, Ottoman architecture, Ottoman monuments, Thrace, Turkey, Views

Inn near Kavala.

Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Costume - Hats and headwear, Equids, Greece, Horses, Human types, Inns, Kavala, Macedonia, Smoking, Social sphere and everyday life, Travel

Landscape at Lake Volvi.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Europeans, Fishing, Greece, Houses, Human types, Lake Volvi, Lakes, Macedonia, Mosques, Natural environment, Ottomans, Small Prespa Lake, Turks, Views

Landscape at Platamon. In the background, Mount Olympus.

Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Boats and ships, Bovids, Costume - Hats and headwear, Greece, Human types, Macedonia, Mount Olympus, Mountains, Natural environment, Pieria, Platamon, Professions, Shepherds, Views

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