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View of the stadium and gymnasium of ancient Messene.
Tags: Ancient Messene, Ancient stadium of Messene, Ancient stadiums, Animals, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Costume - Hats and headwear, Greece, Gymnasium of Messene, Gymnasiums, Human types, Messene, Messenia, Peloponnese, Plans and drawings, Professions, Sheep, Shepherds
View of Athens in the late 19th century.
Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Animals, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Children, Costume - Hats and headwear, Greece, Houses, Human types, Natural environment, Olympeion - Temple of Olympian Zeus (Athens), Parthenon, Sheep, Shepherds, Views, Women
Carriages with livestock and other provisions leave Hanoi. They are destined to feed the soldiers and other followers of the funeral procession of the king of Tonkin (Vietnam).
Tags: Animals, Boats and ships, Bovids, Carriages, Costume - Hats and headwear, Equids, Hanoi, Hens, Horses, Human types, Kingdom of Tonkin, Kings, Officials, Processions, Religious practices, Rites of passage, Sheep, Social sphere and everyday life, Soldiers, State and military institutions - Diplomatic relations, Tonkin, Vietnam
View of the city of Mamre, or Terebinth, Palestine. According to one tradition, this is the site where David overcame Goliath. In the foreground, caravan of Ottoman merchants.
Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Camels, Caravans, Costume - Hats and headwear, Equids, Ethnic groups, Human types, Mamre / anc. Terebinth, Merchants / Traders, Ottomans, Palestine, Professions, Religious practices, Sheep, Shepherds, Social sphere and everyday life, Travel, Turks, Views
View of Athens with the Acropolis and the temple of Hephaestus.
Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Ancient temples, Animals, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Bovids, Camels, Central Greece, Costume - Hats and headwear, Dogs, Equids, Greece, Houses, Human types, Parthenon, Professions, Sheep, Shepherds, Social sphere and everyday life, Temple of Hephaestus (Theseion)
Phoenician funerary monuments in the necropolis of Amrit, south of Tartus, Syria.
Tags: Amrit / anc. Marathos, Animals, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Children, Costume - Hats and headwear, Funerary monuments, Human types, Natural environment, Necropoleis, Necropolis of Amrit (Syria), Phoenician architecture, Phoenician monuments, Professions, Sheep, Shepherds, Social sphere and everyday life, Syria, Tombs of Amrit / al Maghazil, Women
The aqueduct of Sultan Mahmut I in Bahçeköy.
Tags: Animals, Aqueduct of Sultan Mahmud I, Aqueducts, Architecture and built environment, Bahçeköy / byz. Petra, Bahçeköy / gr. Petra, Costume - Hats and headwear, Dogs, Donkeys, Human types, Istanbul, Natural environment, Ottoman architecture, Ottoman monuments, Professions, Sheep, Shepherds, Thrace, Turkey, Views
View of Ilissus river and the partialy destroyed bridge which led to the Panathenaic Stadium. A group of shepherds with their flock prepare to spend the night at the site.
Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Bovids, Bridge of Ilissus, Bridges, Costume - Hats and headwear, Dogs, Goats, Greece, Husbandry, Music, Musical instruments, Musicians, Professions, Roman monuments, Sheep, Shepherds, Social sphere and everyday life, Women
The Arch of Hadrian in Athens with the temple of Olympian Zeus. The temple of Artemis Agrotera in the background. Arvanite shepherds are taking their sheep to graze.
Tags: Albanians, Animals, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Children, Costume - Hats and headwear, Digging tools, Dogs, Ethnic groups, Goats, Greece, Hadrian's Arch (Athens), Husbandry, Oxen, Roman monuments, Sheep, Shepherds, Social sphere and everyday life, Temple of Artemis Agrotera in Agrae / Panagia stin Petra (Athens), Women
Interior view of the Roman amphitheatre of Pula. Due to an epidemics among the livestock of the region, the consumption of lamb and mutton has been forbidden. Shepherds of Slavic ethnicity have sought refuge within the amphitheatre, with their herds. A monk of the order of Saint Anthony, patron of animals according to several traditions, is giving his blessing and sprinkling the sheep with holy water; this terrifies the flock and causes the dogs to bark at the monk. On the right, some weapons, which Slav inhabitants of the area always carry with them, according to the author.
Tags: Ancient theatres, Animals, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Costume - Hats and headwear, Croatia, Dogs, Ethnic groups, Husbandry, Istria, Monks, Order of Saint Anthony, Priests, Professions, Pula / anc. Polai, Rites of blessing, Roman monuments, Roman theatre of Pula, Sheep, Shepherds, Slovene-Croats (Istria), Weapons
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
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