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The Temple of Rome and Augustus in Pula, Croatia.

Tags: Ancient temples, Animals, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Corinthian order, Costume - Hats and headwear, Croatia, Donkeys, Houses, Human types, Inscriptions, Nobility, Pula / anc. Polai, Social sphere and everyday life, Temple of Rome and Augustus (Pula), Women

Imaginary representation of the Temple of Apollo at ancient Corinth.

Tags: Ancient Corinth, Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Corinth, Doric order, Greece, Human types, Mosques, Social sphere and everyday life, Temple of Apollo (Ancient Corinth)

Bridge over Ilissus river, Athens. In the background the site of the Panathenaic Stadium.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Bridge of Ilissus, Bridges, Costume - Hats and headwear, Greece, Human types, Ilissus (Ilisos) river, Natural environment, Panathenaic Stadium, Rivers, Social sphere and everyday life, Stadiums, Women

The Arch of Hadrian, Athens. In the background the Temple of Olympia Zeus.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Columns / Pillars, Corinthian order, Greece, Hadrian, Hadrian's Arch (Athens), Human types, Natural environment, Olympeion - Temple of Olympian Zeus (Athens), Roman architecture, Roman monuments, Roman Εmperors, Social sphere and everyday life

The Monument of Philopappus, Athens

Tags: Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Costume - Hats and headwear, Funerary monuments, Greece, Human types, Monument of Philopappus, Natural environment, Reliefs, Social sphere and everyday life

The Gate of Athena Archegetis (mod. Pazaroporta), Athens.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Columns / Pillars, Costume - Hats and headwear, Doric order, Gate of Athena Archegetis / mod. Pazaroporta, Greece, Houses, Human types, Inscriptions, Roman Agora of Athens, Smoking, Social sphere and everyday life

The Horologion of Andronikos Kyrristos (Tower of the Winds), Athens.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Costume - Hats and headwear, Greece, Horologion of Andronikos Kyrristos / Tower of the Winds (Athens), Houses, Human types, Social sphere and everyday life

The Choregic monument of Thrasyllus (Panagia Spiliotissa), Athens.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Children, Choregic monument of Thrasyllus (Panagia Spiliotissa), Choregic monuments, Columns / Pillars, Corinthian order, Costume - Hats and headwear, Greece, Human types, Social sphere and everyday life

Imaginary representation of Faliro.

Tags: Attica, Boats and ships, Costume - Hats and headwear, Faliro, Fishermen, Fishing, Greece, Human types, Nets, Professions, Smoking, Social sphere and everyday life

View of the Temple of Poseidon, Sounio.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Attica, Central Greece, Costume - Hats and headwear, Greece, Human types, Social sphere and everyday life, Sounion

View of the Temple of Hephaestus (Thiseion), Athens.

Tags: Ancient temples, Animals, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Costume - Hats and headwear, Greece, Horses, Human types, Riders, Social sphere and everyday life, Temple of Hephaestus (Theseion)

View of the Odeon of Herodes Atticus, Athens.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Costume - Hats and headwear, Greece, Human types, Odeon of Herodes Atticus, Odeons, Parthenon, Roman architecture, Roman monuments, Social sphere and everyday life

View of the Propylaea of the Acropolis of Athens.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Cannons, Columns / Pillars, Doric order, Greece, Human types, Propylaea of the Acropolis, Smoking, Social sphere and everyday life, Weapons

Northwest view of Erechtheion.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Caryatids, Costume - Hats and headwear, Erechtheion, Greece, Greek mythology, Human types, Mosques, Smoking, Social sphere and everyday life, Women

Southeast view of the Parthenon.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Centauromachy, Costume - Hats and headwear, Greece, Human types, Metopes, Parthenon, Ruins, Social sphere and everyday life, Women

Samakhi in modern-day Azerbaijan.

Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Azerbaijan, Camels, Carriages, Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Horses, Modes of transport, Persia / Iran, Persians, Şamaxı-Shamachy, Social sphere and everyday life, Views, Walls

View of Mount Ararat.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Costume - Hats and headwear, Horses, Mount Ararat / Ağrı Dağı, Pack animals, Social sphere and everyday life, Turkey, Views

View of the sculptures of the now lost Incantadas monument at the southern entrance of the Roman Agora of Thessaloniki. The sculptures were incorporated in the house of a family of Sephardi Jewish merchants. British consul Paradise, who has come to show John Stuart and Nicholas Revett the monument, meets the owner of the house. A young servant offers the consul a cup of coffee while from above the owner's wife reprimands her husband for not having invited the consul to sit before offering him coffee. On the left, a woman who is spinning approaches the travellers. On the right, Stuart and Revett with the young son of the British consul, who is escorted by the consul's dragoman (interpreter).

Tags: Art and antiquities, Author portraits, Britons, Children, Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Greece, Incantadas monument (Thessaloniki), James Stuart, Jews, Macedonia, Nicholas Revett, Professions, Roman monuments, Social sphere and everyday life, Thessaloniki, Travel, Women

Remains of the portico of the reservoir of the Aqueduct of Hadrian (Dexameni) at the foot of Lycabettus hill. Dairy farm belonging to Arvanites. A woman is milking her goat to make kaymak. A man has come on horseback to buy dairy products. A monk of Hagioi Asomatoi monastery is going to town with his donkey which is carrrying olives and wine. Mount Hymettus and Kaisariani monastery in the background.

Every day life scenes in the Greek state.

Tags: Animals, Children, Costume - Hats and headwear, Greece, Horses, Human types, Smoking, Social sphere and everyday life, Women

Aqueduct on Meles river, near Izmir.

Tags: Animals, Aqueducts, Art and antiquities, Asia Minor, Fishermen, Fishing, Goats, Human types, Ionia, Izmir / Smyrna, Meles river (Meles Çayı), Natural environment, Nobility, Rivers, Shepherds, Social sphere and everyday life, Turkey

Monte Piovizano.

Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Castles and fortresses, Churches, Human types, Italy, Natural environment, Nobility, Oxen, Shepherds, Social sphere and everyday life, Veneto

The armory bazaar in the Grand Bazaar in Istanbul.

Tags: Costume - Hats and headwear, Economic activities, Human types, Istanbul, Kapalı çarşı /Grand Bazaar, Ottoman architecture, Ottoman monuments, Social sphere and everyday life, Soldiers, Street markets and bazaars, Tufeks (firearm), Turkey, Weapons

View of Nikopol, Bulgaria.

Tags: Animals, Birds, Boats and ships, Bulgaria, Costume - Hats and headwear, Danube river, Ducks, Human types, Mosques, Natural environment, Nikopol / anc. Nicopolis, Ottoman monuments, Rivers, Social sphere and everyday life, Views

Title page. Scene in the Valley of Sweet Waters.

Tags: Boats and ships, Children, Costume - Hats and headwear, Fountains / Springs, Human types, Istanbul, Leisure, Ottoman monuments, Social sphere and everyday life, Sweet waters of Europe / Kağithane, Thrace, Title page, Turkey, Women

The arch of the Sergii at Pula, Croatia. Peasants of Slavic ethnicity are walking by with their ox cart. James Stuart, Nicholas Revett and their assistant are on top of the arch, making drawings. On the left a man informs the women gathered that the travellers are searching the Arch of the Sergii for treasures.

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.

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

Camel

Tags: Animals, Camels, Social sphere and everyday life, Travel

Chaeronea.

Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Boeotia, Central Greece, Chaeronea, Goats, Greece, Human types, Natural environment, Shepherds, Smoking, Social sphere and everyday life, Views

Temple of Apollo Epicurius. Arcadia.

Tags: Ancient temples, Animals, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Doric order, Elis, Figaleia, Goats, Greece, Human types, Mount Cotilion (Peloponnese), Mount Elaion, Mountains, Peloponnese, Shepherds, Social sphere and everyday life, Temple of Apollo Epicurius (Bassae)

Mount Olympus.

Tags: Animals, Goats, Greece, Human types, Larissa, Macedonia, Mount Olympus, Mountains, Natural environment, Pieria, Shepherds, Social sphere and everyday life, Thessaly

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