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The Roman Theater of Nicopolis, in Epirus.

Tags: Ancient theatres, Animals, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Epirus, Greece, Mules, Nicopolis (Epirus), Preveza, Roman monuments, Roman theatre of Nicopolis

Ruins of a square building at the ancient walls of Lefkada.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Greece, Greeks, Ionian islands, Lefkada, Shoes and footwear, Weapons

Ruins of ancient walls at Lefkada.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Greece, Greeks, Ionian islands, Lefkada, Women

Panoramic view of the Seraglio Point from one of the minarets of Hagia Sophia. On the left the University of Abdülmecid. In the background the Mosque of Sultan Ahmet I, the Obelisks of the Hippodrome of Constantinople and the Sea of Marmara.

Map of Athens with its walls, showing the sites of ancient monuments.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Greece, Maps

Im. 1: Capital found near Mount Behistun in Persia, possibly representing king Khosrau. 2: Reliefs of Mithridates II of Parthia and Gotarzes II from Behistun. 3: Reliefs framing the inscription of Darius I the Great (Behistun inscription) at Mount Behistun.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Behistun, Darius I, Gotarzes II of Parthia, Inscriptions, Kermanshah, Mithridates II of Parthia, Persia / Iran, Reliefs

Reliefs from the monument of Taq-e Bostan on the ouskirts of Kermanshah in Persia. Im. 1, 2: The king hunting deer and boars. 3: The coronation of shah Khosrau II, with the gigantic figure of the king mounted on his horse at the centre of the composition. 4: The coronation of Shapur III, with the king and his father, Shapur II.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Kermanshah, Persia / Iran, Reliefs, Taq-e Bostan

Im. 1: (1 (Α, B, C, D, E): Shrew bones found in the Ibis burials at Saqqara catacombs, Egypt. Im. 2: Bone of rat from same burial. Im. 3 A, B: Butterfly of the Belenois Aurota species, from the coast of Syria. Im. 4 A, B: Butterfly of the Colotis fausta species from the coast of Syria. Im. 5 A, B: Leaden tablet bearing inscription in Greek, from Beirut. Im. 6, 7: Amulets in cylindrical shape made of red jasper (6) and serpentine (7) bought by Olivier in Sanliurfa.

Tags: Animal burials / Ibis catacombs (Saqqara), Animals, Art and antiquities, Butterflies, Charms, Egypt, Egyptian antiquities, Funerary practices, Inscriptions, Lebanon, Natural environment, Rats, Şanlıurfa / Urfa / anc. Edessa -Antiochia Kallirrhoe -, Saqqara, Syria, Turkey

Reconstruction of a certain monument, possibly of the Roman Odeon of Athens. This drawing was published in 1672, as a reconstruction of the Amphitheater of Verona. However, the same drawing had been published even earlier, in Hieronymus Mercurialis' "De Arte Gymnastica".

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Greece, Plans and drawings, Roman monuments, Theatres

Relief and capital of column from Bunarbaşı, village, erroneously identified in the nineteenth-century with Troy.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Bunarbaşı / Pinarbasi, Reliefs

View from the Eastern side of Alexandria Troas.

Tags: Animals, Art and antiquities, Asia Minor, Camels, Eski Stambul / anc. Alexandria Troas, Human types, Mysia, Natural environment, Ruins, Troad, Turkey, Views

Fig. 1. Plan of the Temple of Zeus in ancient Olympia, Greece. Fig. 2. Plan of the Temple of Temple of Apollo Epicurius in Bassae, Greece.

Tags: Ancient Olympia, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Doric order, Figaleia, Greece, Peloponnese, Plans and drawings, Temple of Apollo Epicurius (Bassae), Temple of Zeus (Olympia)

View and bottom view of capital of Corinthian order from Malta.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Columns / Pillars, Corinthian order, Islands, Malta, Plans and drawings

View of capital of Corinthian order from Malta.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Columns / Pillars, Corinthian order, Malta, Plans and drawings

View, plan and bottom plan of capital of Corinthian order from Milos island.

Tags: Aegean islands, Aegean sea, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Columns / Pillars, Corinthian order, Cyclades, Greece, Milos, Plans and drawings

Temple of Athena in Paestum, Italy: Drawings of crepid, column, capital of the column and part of the entablature in the corner. Fig. 1. The soffite of the principal member of the cornice. Profile of the necking of the capital. Fig. 3. The base and part of the shaf of the columns of the pronaos.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Greek colonies, Italy, Paestum / anc. Poseidonia, Plans and drawings, Southern Italy, Temple of Athena (Paestum)

Reconstruction of the front of the Temple of Athena in Paestum, Italy.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Greek colonies, Italy, Paestum / anc. Poseidonia, Plans and drawings, Southern Italy, Temple of Athena (Paestum)

Plan of the Temple of Athena in Paestum, Italy.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Greek colonies, Italy, Paestum / anc. Poseidonia, Plans and drawings, Southern Italy, Temple of Athena (Paestum)

View of the Temple of Athena in Paestum, Italy.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Columns / Pillars, Doric order, Greek colonies, Human types, Italy, Natural environment, Paestum / anc. Poseidonia, Southern Italy, Temple of Athena (Paestum)

Temple of Hera in Paestum, Italy: Fig. 1. Capital of the antae of the pronaos. Fig. 2. The contour of the shafs of the columns, shewing the diameters at different heights.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Columns / Pillars, Doric order, Greek colonies, Italy, Paestum / anc. Poseidonia, Plans and drawings, Southern Italy, Temple of Hera (Paestum)

Temple of Hera in Paestum, Italy: Fig. 1. Plan and drawing of the entablature together with view of the capital of the column and the column of the peristyle. Fig. 2. Bottom view of the column with details of the decorative elements underneath the echinus.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Columns / Pillars, Doric order, Greek colonies, Italy, Paestum / anc. Poseidonia, Plans and drawings, Southern Italy, Temple of Hera (Paestum)

Reconstruction of the pronaos of the Temple of Hera in Paetsum, Italy.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Columns / Pillars, Doric order, Greek colonies, Italy, Paestum / anc. Poseidonia, Plans and drawings, Southern Italy, Temple of Hera (Paestum)

Plan of the Temple of Hera in Paestum, Italy.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Greek colonies, Italy, Paestum / anc. Poseidonia, Plans and drawings, Southern Italy, Temple of Hera (Paestum)

View of the Temple of Hera in Paestum, Italy.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Columns / Pillars, Doric order, Greek colonies, Italy, Natural environment, Paestum / anc. Poseidonia, Southern Italy

Second Temple of Hera in Paestum, Italy: Fig. 1. Drawing of echinus of the capital of the column of the inner peristyle. Fig. 2. Drawings of the annulets and echinus of the inner peristyle. Fig. 3. Plan of the flutings. Fig. 4. Drawings of the abacus and echinus of the capital in the upper floor of the inner peristyle. Fig. 5. Drawing of the annulets of the capital in the upper floor of the inner peristyle.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Columns / Pillars, Doric order, Greek colonies, Italy, Plans and drawings, Southern Italy, Temple of Hera II (Paestum)

Views of columns, capital of the column, abacus, and other architectural elements of the inner peristyle of the Second Temple of Hera in Paestum, Italy.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Columns / Pillars, Doric order, Greek colonies, Italy, Paestum / anc. Poseidonia, Plans and drawings, Southern Italy, Temple of Hera II (Paestum)

Second Temple of Hera in Paestum, Italy: Fig. 1. Half plan of the entablature of pronaos: triglyph, metops etc. Drawings of column, capital of the column and part of the entablature of pronaos. Fig. 2. Section plan of the triglyph. Fig. 3. Section plan of abacus, capital of the column and column of the pronaos.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Columns / Pillars, Doric order, Greek colonies, Italy, Paestum / anc. Poseidonia, Plans and drawings, Southern Italy, Temple of Hera II (Paestum)

Second Temple of Hera in Paestum, Italy: Drawing of stylobate, column, capital of the column and part of the entablature of the outer peristyle. Section plan of the entablature of the outer peristyle. Plan of the triglyph of the outer peristyle.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Columns / Pillars, Doric order, Greek colonies, Italy, Paestum / anc. Poseidonia, Plans and drawings, Southern Italy, Temple of Hera II (Paestum)

Section plan of the Second Temple of Hera in Paestum, Italy

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Columns / Pillars, Doric order, Greek colonies, Italy, Paestum / anc. Poseidonia, Plans and drawings, Southern Italy, Temple of Hera II (Paestum)

Reconstruction of the part between the opisthodomos and the outer peristyle in the Second Temple of Hera in Paestum, Italy

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Columns / Pillars, Doric order, Greek colonies, Italy, Paestum / anc. Poseidonia, Plans and drawings, Southern Italy, Temple of Hera II (Paestum)

Reconstruction of the part between pronaos and outer peristyle in the Second Temple of Hera in Paestum, Italy.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Columns / Pillars, Doric order, Greek colonies, Italy, Paestum / anc. Poseidonia, Plans and drawings, Southern Italy, Temple of Hera II (Paestum)

Reconstruction of the front of the Second Temple of Hera in Paestum, Italy.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Columns / Pillars, Doric order, Greek colonies, Italy, Paestum / anc. Poseidonia, Plans and drawings, Southern Italy, Temple of Hera II (Paestum)

Plan of the Second Temple of Hera in Paestum, Italy.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Greek colonies, Italy, Paestum / anc. Poseidonia, Plans and drawings, Southern Italy, Temple of Hera II (Paestum)

View of the Second Temple of Hera in Paestum, Italy.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Columns / Pillars, Doric order, Greek colonies, Italy, Natural environment, Paestum / anc. Poseidonia, Southern Italy, Temple of Hera II (Paestum)

View of the Temple of Hera (on the left) and the Temple of Athena (on the right) in Paestum, Italy.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Columns / Pillars, Doric order, Greek colonies, Italy, Paestum / anc. Poseidonia, Southern Italy, Temple of Athena (Paestum), Temple of Hera (Paestum), Temple of Hera II (Paestum)

Ruins of ancient temples in Paestum, Italy.

Tags: Ancient temples, Animals, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Greek colonies, Italy, Oxen, Paestum / anc. Poseidonia, Ruins, Southern Italy

Doric Temple of Segesta, Sicily: Fig. 1. Drawing of the capital of the column with detailed measurements of abacus and echinus of the capital. Fig. 2. Drawing of the annulets and echinus. Fig. 3. Drawing of the torus. Fig. 4. Plan of the column at the base of the shaf. Fig. 5. Plan of the capital and the base of the shaf.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Columns / Pillars, Doric order, Doric temple of Segesta, Greek colonies, Italy, Plans and drawings, Segesta, Sicily, Southern Italy

Doric Temple of Segesta, Sicily: Views of stylobate, column, capital of the column and part of the entablature at the corner. On the right drawing of guttae.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Columns / Pillars, Doric order, Doric temple of Segesta, Greek colonies, Italy, Plans and drawings, Segesta, Sicily, Southern Italy

The front of the Doric Temple in Segesta, Sicily.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Columns / Pillars, Doric order, Doric temple of Segesta, Greek colonies, Italy, Plans and drawings, Segesta, Sicily, Southern Italy

Plan of the Doric Temple in Segesta, Sicily.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Columns / Pillars, Doric order, Doric temple of Segesta, Greek colonies, Italy, Plans and drawings, Segesta, Sicily, Southern Italy

Reconstruction of the ancient theater of Segesta in Sicily.

Tags: Ancient theatre of Segesta, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Greek colonies, Italy, Segesta, Sicily, Southern Italy, Theatres

Reconstruction of the ancient theater of Segesta in Sicily.

Tags: Ancient theatre of Segesta, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Greek colonies, Italy, Segesta, Sicily, Southern Italy, Theatres

Plan of Temple F in Selinunte, Sicily.

Tags: Ancient temples, Art and antiquities, Greek colonies, Italy, Natural environment, Plans and drawings, Selinunte, Sicily, Southern Italy, Temple F (Selinunte)

Drawings of the opisthodomos of Temple E, probably dedicated to Hera, in Selinunte, Sicily. Capital of the column, with details of the annulets and echinus. Drawing of the entablature at the corner.

Tags: Ancient temples, Art and antiquities, Columns / Pillars, Doric order, Greek colonies, Italy, Natural environment, Plans and drawings, Selinunte, Sicily, Southern Italy, Temple E / Temple of Hera (Selinunte)

Temple E, probably dedicated to Hera, in Selinunte, Sicily: Drawing of stylobate. Views of column, capital of the column, and part of entablature at the corner. Fig. 1. Drawings of annulets and echinus of the capital of the column. Fig. 2. Plan of the triglyph.

Tags: Ancient temples, Art and antiquities, Columns / Pillars, Doric order, Greek colonies, Italy, Natural environment, Plans and drawings, Selinunte, Sicily, Southern Italy, Temple E / Temple of Hera (Selinunte)

Reconstruction of the front of Temple E, probably dedicated to Hera, in Selinunte, Sicily.

Tags: Ancient temples, Art and antiquities, Columns / Pillars, Doric order, Greek colonies, Italy, Natural environment, Plans and drawings, Selinunte, Sicily, Southern Italy, Temple E / Temple of Hera (Selinunte)

Plan of Temple E, probably dedicated to Hera, in Selinunte, Sicily.

Tags: Ancient temples, Art and antiquities, Greek colonies, Italy, Natural environment, Plans and drawings, Selinunte, Sicily, Southern Italy, Temple E / Temple of Hera (Selinunte)

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