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Turkish woman waters the flowers of her husband's grave.

Tags: Costume - Hats and headwear, Funerary monuments, Funerary steles, Greece, Human types, Ottoman monuments, Ottomans, Peloponnese, Religious ceremonies, Social sphere and everyday life, Women

Turkish mausoleums and funerary steles in the Peloponnese.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Children, Funerary monuments, Funerary steles, Greece, Human types, Mausoleums, Natural environment, Ottoman architecture, Ottoman mausoleums, Ottoman monuments, Ottomans, Peloponnese

Orthodox priest guides a gentleman of west European origin into the interior section of a rock-cut mausoleum in Palaiopolis, Cythera.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Children, Christian priests, Costume - Hats and headwear, Cythera, Ethnic groups, Europeans, Funerary monuments, Greece, Human types, Ionian islands, Mausoleums, Palaiopolis (Cythera), Social sphere and everyday life

Plans and section plans of rock-carved mausoleums in Palaiopolis, Cythera.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Cythera, Funerary monuments, Greece, Ionian islands, Mausoleums, Palaiopolis (Cythera), Plans and drawings

Armenian cemetery in Istanbul.

Tags: Armenian cemetery, Armenian graves, Armenians, Boats and ships, Cemeteries, Ethnic groups, Funerary monuments, Human types, Istanbul, Smoking, Social sphere and everyday life, Thrace, Turkey, Women

The mausoleum of Sultan Suleiman I, Istanbul.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Funerary monuments, Human types, Istanbul, Mausoleum of Sultan Suleiman I (Sultan Süleyman türbesi), Natural environment, Ottoman architecture, Ottoman monuments, Ottomans, Quran, Reading, Suleiman I (I. Süleyman), Sultans, Thrace, Turkey

View of Lapseki and the Hellespont.

Tags: Boats and ships, Dardanelles / Çanakkale boğazı / anc. Hellespont, Funerary monuments, Lapseki / anc. Lampsacus, Muslim cemeteries, Mysia, Natural environment, Ottoman monuments, Turkey, Views

"Archocrateion", Hellenistic rock cut tomb, at Lindos, Rhodes.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Caves, Costume - Hats and headwear, Dodecanese, Funerary monuments, Greece, Hellenistic architecture, Lindos, Mausoleums, Natural environment, Ottomans, Rhodes, Social sphere and everyday life

Woman of Caramania carrying her baby. Behind follows her daughter, carrying a bowl of water.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Asia Minor, Caramania, Children, Costume - Hats and headwear, Funerary monuments, Human types, Ottomans, Sarcophagi, Social sphere and everyday life, Spinning, Turkey, Women

Lycian sarcophagus at Fethiye (gr. Makri).

Tags: Art and antiquities, Asia Minor, Costume - Hats and headwear, Fethiye / gr. Makri / anc. Telmessos, Funerary monuments, Human types, Lycia, Lycian tombs, Mausoleums, Natural environment, Ottomans, Scribes, Social sphere and everyday life, Turkey

Lycian sarcophagi at Myra (today Demre).

Tags: Art and antiquities, Asia Minor, Costume - Hats and headwear, Funerary monuments, Human types, Inscriptions, Lycia, Lycian sarcophagi, Mausoleums, Myra / Demre - Kale, Natural environment, Ottomans, Sarcophagi, Scribes, Smoking, Social sphere and everyday life, Turkey

Lycian sarcophagi at Andriake (today Çayağzı), the port of ancient Myra (today Demre).

Tags: Art and antiquities, Asia Minor, Caramania, Çayağzı / anc. Andriake, Costume - Hats and headwear, Funerary monuments, Human types, Lycia, Lycian tombs, Myra / Demre - Kale, Natural environment, Ottomans, Ports, Social sphere and everyday life, Turkey

Lycian sarcophagi at Andriake (today Çayağzı), the port of ancient Myra (today Demre).

Tags: Art and antiquities, Asia Minor, Caramania, Çayağzı / anc. Andriake, Costume - Hats and headwear, Funerary monuments, Human types, Lycia, Lycian sarcophagi, Myra / Demre - Kale, Natural environment, Ottomans, Ports, Sarcophagi, Social sphere and everyday life, Turkey

The tomb of Grand Master Fabrice Caretti in the Church of Saint John in Rhodes.

Tags: Aegean islands, Architecture and built environment, Church of Saint John – Collachio (Rhodes), Coats of arms – Emblems, Dodecanese, Funerary monuments, Grand Masters of the Knights Hospitaller, Greece, Inscriptions, Medieval monuments, Medieval old town of Rhodes, Rhodes, Views

The tomb of Grand Master Robert de Julliac in the Franciscan church which was converted into a mosque, adjacent to the public baths of Rhodes (Yeni Hamam). Muslim people preparing to pray at the mosque.

The fortifications of the city of Rhodes and the Muslim cemetery seen from the west. The author being shown the location.

Tags: Aegean islands, Architecture and built environment, Cemeteries, Dodecanese, Funerary monuments, Greece, Inscriptions, Medieval monuments, Medieval old town of Rhodes, Mosques, Muslim cemeteries, Ottoman inscriptions, Ottoman monuments, Rhodes, Views, Walls, Windmills

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

Elevations, section plans and plans of funerary monuments from Alinda (today Karpuzlu), Asia Minor.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Asia Minor, Funerary monuments, Karpuzlu / anc. Alinda – Alexandria by Latmus, Necropolis of Alinda, Plans and drawings, Turkey

Tholos tomb of Mycenae (Treasury of Atreus): Reconstruction.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Argolis, Art and antiquities, Funerary monuments, Greece, Mycenae, Peloponnese, Plans and drawings, Tholos tomb of Mycenae (Treasury of Atreus)

Tholos tomb of Mycenae (Treasury of Atreus). Details of the front: Subterranean chamber at Mycenae. Details. Fig. 1 is of green marble, and still remains on the spot, immediately outside the avenue leading to the door. Fig. 2. Elevation of ditto, with part of the shaft of the column. Fig. 3. Detail of part of the ornament of the base developed at large. Fig. 4: Small fragment supposed to belong to the capital. Fig. 5: Part of the ornament of the shaft of column developed at large. Fig. 6: Plan of the upper part of the shaft. Fig. 7: Small fragment of white marble. Fig. 8: Small fragment of white marble, in the restoration applied as the parapet of the wall. Fig. 9: Fragment of green marble. Fig. 10: Fragment of red marble. The angle produced by two of the sides, corresponds precisely with the angles formed by the lines of the opening above the entrance, and which coincidence has therefore afforded authority for the introduction in the restored elevation of a basso-relievo.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Argolis, Art and antiquities, Funerary monuments, Greece, Mycenae, Peloponnese, Plans and drawings, Tholos tomb of Mycenae (Treasury of Atreus)

Tholos tomb of Mycenae (Treasury of Atreus): Section of tholos.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Argolis, Art and antiquities, Funerary monuments, Greece, Mycenae, Peloponnese, Plans and drawings, Tholos tomb of Mycenae (Treasury of Atreus)

Tholos tomb of Mycenae (Treasury of Atreus): Subterranean chamber at Mycenae. Plan of the subterraneous chamber. Fig. 2 represents the plan of the supercilium or architrave over the door. Fig. 3, shews the plan of the same architrave on the step. Conduit and emissary at Tusculum near Rome.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Argolis, Art and antiquities, Funerary monuments, Greece, Mycenae, Peloponnese, Plans and drawings, Tholos tomb of Mycenae (Treasury of Atreus)

Tholos tomb of Mycenae (Treasury of Atreus): Entrance.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Argolis, Art and antiquities, Costume - Hats and headwear, Funerary monuments, Greece, Human types, Mycenae, Peloponnese, Plans and drawings, Tholos tomb of Mycenae (Treasury of Atreus), Views

Fig. 1. The Cave of Heracles on Mount Cynthus, Delos. Fig. 2. Fragment of the leg of Apollo's statue from Delos. Fig. 3. Fragment from relief from Delos. Fig. 4-15. Fragments from Delos. Fig. 16-19. Fragment from Rineia.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Cave of Heracles (Delos), Cyclades, Delos, Funerary monuments, Greece, Rineia / Rhenea, Stoa of Philip V (Delos)

1. Funerary stele at the Church of Panagia Acheiropoietos, Lapithos, Cyprus . 2. Part of the front of the Kolossi Castle, Limassol. 3. Front view of the Church of Agios Mamas at Morfou, Cyprus.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Ayios Mamas, Castles and fortresses, Church of Ayios Mamas (Morfou), Church of Panagia Acheiropoietos (Lapithos), Church of Panayia Acheropiiti (Lapithos), Churches, Cyprus, Funerary monuments, Knights Hospitaller, Kolossi Castle (Limassol), Lapithos, Limassol, Medieval monuments, Morphou, Saints

Inscriptions in Greek from catacombs near Aleppo, Syria.

Tags: Aleppo, Art and antiquities, Catacombs, Funerary monuments, Greek alphabet, Inscriptions, Syria

Inscription in Greek at the necropolis of Furkia, near Aleppo.

Tags: Aleppo, Art and antiquities, Catacombs, Catacombs of Furkia, Funerary monuments, Furkia, Greek alphabet, Inscriptions, Necropolis of Furcia, Syria

1. Relief from entrance to a Roman Tomb, showing Apollo and Demeter, at the necropolis of Furkia. 2. Relief from entrance to a Roman Tomb, showing Hermes and Pheme, at the necropolis of Furkia. 3. Relief from entrance to a Roman Tomb, showing Ceres and Athena, at the necropolis of Furkia.4. Relief from entrance to a Roman Tomb, showing a priest, at the necropolis of Furkia. 5. Reconstructive drawing of building at Al Bara, near Aleppo. 6. Relief found at the entrance of the library of the Levant Company (or East Company) at Aleppo, Syria.

Tags: Al Bara, Aleppo, Ancient gods / deities, Arches, Art and antiquities, Demeter, Funerary monuments, Furkia, Hermes, Imaginary representations - Reconstructions, Levant Company, Libraries, Necropoleis, Necropolis of Furcia, Pheme, Reliefs, Roman monuments, Syria

1. Monumental building. 2. View of part of the wall of the temple of Saint Peter in Antakya, Turkey. 3. Funerary stele showing a gladiator in Samandağ (anc. Seleucia Pieria). 4. View of entrance leading to catacomb at Shaykh Barakat, near Aleppo. 5. View of funerary stele at the entrance of Shaykh Barakat. 6. View of gate at Shaykh Barakat.

Tags: Agios Petros (Antioch/ Antakya), Antakya-Hatay / Antioch, Art and antiquities, Catacombs, Churches, Columns / Pillars, Corinthian order, Funerary monuments, Funerary steles, Gates, Roman monuments, Saints, Samandağ / anc. Seleucia Pieria, Shaykh Barakat, Shaykh Barakat Catacombs, Steles, Syria, Turkey

1.View of the great altar at the Church of Saint Simeon Stylites, Syria. 2. Funerary stele from Hierapolis, near Aleppo, Syria. 3. Fragment of relief from Hierapolis.

Tags: Aleppo, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Byzantine monuments, Church of Saint Simeon Stylites / Qalaat Semaan / Deir Semaan (Syria), Euphrates river, Funerary monuments, Hierapolis, Reliefs, Rivers, Saint Simeon Stylites, Saints, Syria

Ancient sarcophagus.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Costume - Hats and headwear, Death, Funerary monuments, Greece, Rites of passage, Sarcophagi, Women

Mount Cithaeron and tombs at Platea (Plataies).

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Boeotia, Central Greece, Funerary monuments, Greece, Mount Cithaeron, Mountains, Natural environment, Plataea / Plataies, Views

The entrance to the cave of Zeus on Za mountain, Naxos.

Tags: Aegean islands, Art and antiquities, Caves, Cyclades, Funerary monuments, Greece, Human types, Natural environment, Naxos

The tomb of Themistocles in Drapetsona.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Attica, Boats and ships, Central Greece, Drapetsona, Funerary monuments, Greece, Piraeus, Tomb of Themistocles (Piraeus)

View of Kerameikos cemetery.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Cemeteries, Funerary monuments, Greece, Kerameikos

Druze tomb. Arab tomb.

Tags: Arabs, Architecture and built environment, Druze, Ethnic groups, Funerary monuments, Human types, Lebanon

Muslim funeral.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Costume - Hats and headwear, Funerals, Funerary monuments, Human types, Istanbul, Religious practices, Rites of passage, Thrace, Turkey

The tomb of Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos at Pammakaristos Church (today Fethiye Mosque).

Tags: Alexios I Komnenos, Architecture and built environment, Byzantine emperors, Funerary monuments, Istanbul, Pammakaristos Church / Fethiye Mosque (Fethiye Camii), Patriarchate of Constantinople, Religious practices, Thrace, Turkey

Mausoleum and sarcophagus of a Sultan.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Funerary monuments, Istanbul, Religious practices, Thrace, Turkey

Tombs in Bulgaria.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Bulgaria, Funerary monuments

Tomb, possibly of a certain Ottoman official.

Tags: Funerary monuments, Social sphere and everyday life, Turkey

Inscription from the Lycian Tombs in Makri (today Fethiye).

Tags: Art and antiquities, Asia Minor, Fethiye / gr. Makri / anc. Telmessos, Funerary monuments, Inscriptions, Lycia, Turkey

Tomb of Helen, Daughter of Jason at Makri (today Fethiye).

Tags: Art and antiquities, Asia Minor, Fethiye / gr. Makri / anc. Telmessos, Funerary monuments, Lycia, Turkey

Terra cotta figure, with moveable legs and arms, which were put in motion by means of a string. This figure was found at a funerary monument in Piraeus.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Attica, Central Greece, Funerary monuments, Funerary offerings, Games and toys, Greece, Piraeus

Funerary monument in the shape of a hydria, depicting funerary ceremony. This monument was found at Kerameikos cemetery in Athens.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Cemeteries, Central Greece, Funerary monuments, Greece, Kerameikos, Sculptures

Funerary monument in the shape of a hydria, depicting funerary ceremony. This monument was found at the Roman Agora of Athens.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Funerary monuments, Greece, Roman Agora of Athens, Sculptures

Tomb in Piraeus.

Tags: Ancient pottery / Vase painting, Art and antiquities, Attica, Central Greece, Funerary monuments, Greece, Piraeus

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