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1, 3: Votive offerings, possibly from Kerameikos cemetery: Urn with relief, funerary stele. 2. Statue of Nike.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Cemeteries, Central Greece, Funerary monuments, Greece, Kerameikos, Reliefs, Sculptures, Urns, Votive offerings / Ex-voto

Antiquities from Athens: 1. Ionic column capital from the inner peristyle of the Propylaea of the Acropolis. 2. Drawings of the entablature, side view and section of a column capital from the inner peristyle of the Acropolis Propylaea. Plan of Ionic column, drawings of the pedestal. 3. Inscriptions on a metope found in the ancient Agora of Athens.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Ancient agorae, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Columns / Pillars, Greece, Inscriptions, Ionic order, Propylaea of the Acropolis, Reliefs, Sculptures

The Gate of Athena Archegetis at the Roman Agora of Athens.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Gate of Athena Archegetis / mod. Pazaroporta, Greece, Houses

The temple of Athena Nike at the Acropolis of Athens.

Tags: Ancient temples, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Greece, Parthenon, Temple of Athena Nike (Acropolis), Views

The Parthenon seen from the Propylaea.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Ancient temples, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Doric order, Greece, Human types, Parthenon, Views

The Acropolis seen from Pnyx hill.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Greece, Odeon of Herodes Atticus, Odeons, Parthenon, Views

Title page.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Coins, Greece, Title page

The interior of the Tholos Tomb of Mycenae (Treasury of Atreus).

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Argolis, Art and antiquities, Greece, Human types, Mycenae, Mycenaean architecture, Mycenaean monuments, Peloponnese, Tholos tomb of Mycenae (Treasury of Atreus), Tholos tombs, Views

The temple of Aphaia, Aegina island.

Tags: Aegean islands, Aegina, Art and antiquities, Doric order, Greece, Human types, Islands of the Argo-saronic gulf, Natural environment, Temple of Aphaia (Aegina)

The temple of Apollo at the site of Kolona, Aegina island.

Tags: Aegean islands, Aegina, Archaeological site of Kolona (Aegina), Art and antiquities, Boats and ships, Greece, Human types, Islands of the Argo-saronic gulf, Natural environment, Temple of Apollo (Aegina)

Inscription etched on the rock at the Vale of Tempi, first century BCE: “L. CASSIUS LONGINUS PROCONS TEMPE MUNIVIT” that is, proconsul L. Cassius Longinus built a road or fortifications at Tempi. The rock bearing the inscription was destroyed during the construction of the national highway in 1959.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Greece, Human types, Inscriptions, Natural environment, Pineios river, Rivers, Roman inscriptions, Tempi, Thessaly, Travel, Vale of Tempi

Landscape near the ancient site of Gonnoi, at the western end of the Vale of Tempi. Due to its strong fortress, the location was also called Kondylos or Gonnokondylos.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Castles and fortresses, Gonnoi, Greece, Human types, Kondylos / Gonnokondylos, Natural environment, Pineios river, Rivers, Tempi, Thessaly, Vale of Tempi

Mosque at the spring of Kefalovryso, the Hyperian fountain of antiquity, at Velestino (ancient Pherae). In the foreground, part of a column, most possibly from the temple of Zeus Thaulios.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Costume - Hats and headwear, Fountains / Springs, Greece, Houses, Human types, Kefalovryso, Magnesia, Mosques, Natural environment, Smoking, Temple of Zeus Thaulios (Velestino), Thessaly, Velestino / anc. Pherae, Women

Ancient wall at Achinos, Phthiotis.

Tags: Achinos, Art and antiquities, Central Greece, Greece, Human types, Natural environment, Phthiotis, Walls

Ancient wall structure at Thermopylae.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Boats and ships, Central Greece, Greece, Human types, Natural environment, Phthiotis, Smoking, Thermopylae, Walls

The fortresss of Fyli at the feet of Mount Parnitha in Attica.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Attica, Castles and fortresses, Fortress of Fyli (Parnitha), Greece, Human types, Mount Parnitha, Natural environment

The column of Marcian in Istanbul.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Column of Marcian (Kıztaşı), Istanbul, Roman monuments, Thrace, Turkey, Views

The Obelisk of Theodosius I (on the left) , and the Serpentine Column, from the Sanctuary of Apollo at Delphi, at the Byzantine Hippodrome of Istanbul.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Byzantine monuments, Hippodrome of Constantinople / At Meydanı, Istanbul, Obelisk of Theodosius I, Serpent column/ Plataean tripod/ Delphi tripod (Istanbul), Thrace, Turkey

Coins of the kings of Macedonia.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Chalkidiki, Coins, Macedonia

Ancient coins from Bertisco, a mountain at the north of Thessaloniki district. Most probably the coins came from the cities of Crestonia, an ancient province of Macedonia. Coins from the ancient kingdom of Bisaltia in Macedonia.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Bertisco, Bisaltia, Chalkidiki, Coins, Crestonia, Greece, Macedonia, Mountains, Serres

Ancient coins from Bertisco, a mountain at the north of Thessaloniki district. Most probably the coins came from the cities of Crestonia, an ancient province of Macedonia. Coins from the ancient kingdom of Bisaltia in Macedonia.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Bertisco, Bisaltia, Chalkidiki, Coins, Crestonia, Greece, Macedonia, Mountains, Serres

Coins of ancient Athens. Coins of the city of Neapolis (today Kavala) in Macedonia, which was a member of the Athenian League.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Coins, Greece, Macedonia, Neapolis (Kavala)

Ancient inscrption from Philippoi.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Greece, Inscriptions, Kavala, Macedonia, Philippoi, Roman inscriptions

Ancient Greek (Macedonian) and Roman coins from Philippoi. Pedestal bearing Roman inscription from Philippoi.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Coins, Greece, Inscriptions, Kavala, Macedonia, Philippoi, Roman inscriptions

Hellenistic coins bearing portrait heads of Alexander the Great.

Tags: Alexander the Great, Art and antiquities, Coins, Greece, Macedonia, Portraits

Roman coins of Macedonia.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Coins, Greece, Macedonia

Roman inscription from the catedral church (metropolis) of Serres.

Tags: Amphipolis, Art and antiquities, Greece, Inscriptions, Macedonia, Serres

Roman inscription from the catedral church (metropolis) of Serres.

Tags: Amphipolis, Art and antiquities, Greece, Inscriptions, Macedonia, Serres

Byzantine inscription from Amphipolis.

Tags: Amphipolis, Art and antiquities, Greece, Inscriptions, Macedonia

Roman inscription from the cathedral church (metropolis) of Serres.

Tags: Amphipolis, Art and antiquities, Greece, Inscriptions, Macedonia, Serres

View of ancient Amphipolis.

Tags: Amphipolis, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Greece, Human types, Macedonia, Natural environment, Serres

Ancient inscription from Amphipolis.

Tags: Amphipolis, Art and antiquities, Greece, Inscriptions, Macedonia, Serres

Ancient relief from Amphipolis, probably of the Roman era. The author claims to have seen the relief in one of the city's churches.

Tags: Amphipolis, Art and antiquities, Greece, Macedonia, Reliefs, Serres

Antiquities from ancient Pella.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Coins, Greece, Macedonia, Pella, Reliefs

Inscription from the church of Hagios Demetrios in Thessaloniki.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Byzantine inscriptions, Churches, Greece, Hagios Demetrios (Thessaloniki), Inscriptions, Macedonia, Thessaloniki

View of the Rotonda in Thessaloniki.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Byzantine monuments, Costume - Hats and headwear, Greece, Human types, Macedonia, Religious practices, Roman monuments, Rotonda (Thessaloniki), Smoking, Social sphere and everyday life, Thessaloniki, Views

View of the sculptures at the southern entrance to the Roman Agora of Thessaloniki (Incantadas Monument).

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Children, Costume - Hats and headwear, Greece, Houses, Human types, Incantadas monument (Thessaloniki), Macedonia, Roman architecture, Roman monuments, Thessaloniki, Women

Roman coin from Thessaloniki.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Coins, Greece, Macedonia, Thessaloniki

The triumphal arch of Galerius, also known as Kamara, Thessaloniki.

Tags: Arch of Galerius / Kamara (Thessaloniki), Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Costume - Hats and headwear, Greece, Houses, Human types, Macedonia, Reliefs, Social sphere and everyday life, Thessaloniki

Triumphal arch in the honour of Antonius and Octavius, victors of the battle at Philippoi. This now-lost monument was located in the Vardari area of Thessaloniki (today Dimokratias Square), to the west of Via Egnatia.

Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Costume - Hats and headwear, Equids, Greece, Houses, Human types, Macedonia, Roman architecture, Roman monuments, Social sphere and everyday life, Thessaloniki, Triumphal Arch of Octavius and Antonius

Ancient Greek and Byzantine coins of Thessaloniki.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Byzantium, Coins, Greece, Macedonia, Thessaloniki

The temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae. On the left, the Turkish and the Tatar attendants of Edward Dodwell.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Bassae, Costume - Hats and headwear, Doric order, Ethnic groups, Greece, Human types, Natural environment, Peloponnese, Professions, Servants, Tatars, Temple of Apollo Epicurius (Bassae), Turks, Views

Plain of Ancient Olympia.

Tags: Ancient Olympia, Art and antiquities, Costume - Hats and headwear, Elis, Greece, Human types, Natural environment, Peloponnese, Views

The Gate of the Lions at Mycenae.

Tags: Argolis, Art and antiquities, Greece, Lion Gate (Mycenae), Mycenae, Mycenaean architecture, Mycenaean monuments, Peloponnese, Views, Walls

The Monastery of Panagia Faneromeni on Salamis island.

Tags: Aegean islands, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Greece, Islands of the Argo-saronic gulf, Monasteries, Monastery of Panagia Faneromeni (Salamis), Natural environment, Salamis, Views

The interior of the temple of Aphaia at Aegina island.

Tags: Aegean islands, Aegina, Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Costume - Hats and headwear, Cultural activities, Doric order, Greece, Human types, Islands of the Argo-saronic gulf, Music, Musical instruments, Musicians, Natural environment, String instruments, Temple of Aphaia (Aegina)

The temple of Aphaia on Aegina island. The peasants who supplied the travellers with provisions during the latter's stay at the site.

Tags: Aegean islands, Aegina, Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Costume - Hats and headwear, Doric order, Greece, Human types, Islands of the Argo-saronic gulf, Natural environment, Temple of Aphaia (Aegina), Women

South-east view of the temple of Poseidon at Sounion.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Attica, Costume - Hats and headwear, Doric order, Greece, Human types, Natural environment, Sounion, Temple of Poseidon (Sounio), Views

View of the temple of Olympian Zeus and Ilissus river.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Costume - Hats and headwear, Greece, Human types, Ilissus (Ilisos) river, Natural environment, Olympeion - Temple of Olympian Zeus (Athens), Rivers, Views

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