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1. View of the Church of Saint Simeon Stylites, near Aleppo, Syria. 2. Bottom view of the base of the columns together with views of the columns and the arches of the Church of Saint Simeon Stylites.

Tags: Aleppo, Arches, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Byzantine monuments, Church of Saint Simeon Stylites / Qalaat Semaan / Deir Semaan (Syria), Columns / Pillars, Mount of Saint Simeon Stylites / Sheik Barakat (Syria), Mountains, Saint Simeon Stylites, Saints, Syria

View of Aleppo and its castle.

Tags: Acropoleis, Acropolis of Aleppo, Aleppo, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Mosques, Ottoman monuments, Syria, Views

1. Chameleon. 2. Musical instrument. 3-4. The Arch of Septimus Severus at Latakia, Syria.

Tags: Animals, Arch of Septimius Severus, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Chameleons, Gates, Latakia / anc. Laodicea, Musical instruments, Roman monuments, Septimus Severus, Syria

1. Temple of Janus at Smyrna. 2. Great Circus at Smyrna. 3. Gate of the Castle of Smyrna. 4. Bay of Smyrna. 5. Chimaera.

Tags: Ancient stadiums, Ancient temples, Art and antiquities, Asia Minor, Gates, Gulf of Izmir, Ionia, Izmir / Smyrna, Kadifekale / anc. Pagos, Maps, Plans and drawings, Reliefs, Temple of Homer (Smyrna), Temple of Ianus (Smyrna), Turkey

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

1. View of the Palestra of Delos. 2. Portico at Delos. 3. Fragment from Delos. 4. The ancient theater of Delos. 5. View of Delos.

Tags: Aegean islands, Ancient temples, Ancient theatre of Delos, Ancient theatres, Art and antiquities, Cyclades, Delos, Greece, Gymnasiums, Inscriptions, Maps, Palaestras, Views

The Bridge la Santa Trinita in Florence.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Bridge of Santa Trinita, Bridges, Florence, Italy, Tuscany

Frontispiece. Allegory of author's voyage.

Tags: Agricultural tools, Alexander Drummond, Architects, Architectural instruments, Art and antiquities, Athens, Author portraits, Boats and ships, Books, Cannons, Central Greece, Frontispieces, Greece, Musical instruments, Pausanias, Weapons, Women

Dorotheus. This, and another figure, representing a priestess of Isis, are mentioned in the journal as having been found in Andros. No drawing of the other figure has been preserved.

Tags: Aegean islands, Andros, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Cyclades, Greece

Fragments from various Places. Fig. 1: Ionic entablature at Palaeopolis in Andros. Fig. 2: Base found at Scopelos. Fig. 3: Side elevation of a Sarcophagus at Scopelo, which serves at present as a cistern, or rather as a watering trough. Fig. 4: Part of the end of this Sarcophagus. Fig. 5: Ormanent at the angle. Fig. 6: Section of the mouldings of the side. Fig. 7: Section of the upper tablet at the angle. Fig. 8: Section of the lower ditto above the claw. Fig. 9&10: Section of the flutings.

Tags: Aegean islands, Andros, Art and antiquities, Cyclades, Greece, Plans and drawings, Skopelos island, Sporades islands

Sculpture in the quarries at Paros.

Tags: Aegean islands, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Cyclades, Greece, Paros, Plans and drawings

Fragments of the Isle of Paros. Fig, 1: Altar with a horned head. Fig.. 2: Altar, with roses. Fig. 3: Doric Capital. Fig. 4: Mouldings. Fig. 5: Architrave of a door. Fig. 6: Section of ditto. Fig. 7: Moulding.

Tags: Aegean islands, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Cyclades, Greece, Paros, Plans and drawings

Other fragments of Delos. Fig. 1 & 2: appear to be capitals of Pilasters. Fig. 3& 4 are probably altars. They were found among the ruins of the Portico of Philip. Fig. 5, 6, 7 & 8 Bases of pilasters or of antae. Fig. 9, 10& 11. Other fragments of mouldings.

Tags: Aegean islands, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Cyclades, Delos, Greece, Plans and drawings

Fig. 1: Plan of a Triglyph ornamented with Bull's heads. Fig. 2: Front elevation with the bull's head. Fig. 3: Side elevation. Fig. 4? Fig. 5: Supposed section of the complete order. Fig. 6: Cornice of a building on the left hand of the temple of Apollo. Fig. 7&8: Mouldings, probably of altars.

Tags: Aegean islands, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Cyclades, Delos, Greece, Plans and drawings

Fragments in the Isle of Delos. Fig. 1: Plan. Fig. 2: Front and Fig. 3: Side elevations of two bull's heads attached to the upper part of two columns.

Tags: Aegean islands, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Cyclades, Delos, Greece, Plans and drawings

Inscriptions from church at Paros.

Tags: Aegean islands, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Cyclades, Greece, Paros

Roman coin from Tanagra.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Boeotia, Greece, Tanagra

Fig. 1: Plan of the Castalian fountain. Fig. 2: Elevation. The upright grooves in the wall do not admit an easy explanation. Fig. 3: Section. This shews the singular form of the niche. Fig. 4: Architrave of a door in a church at Delphi. Fig. 5: Profile of the seats of the Stadium at Delphi.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Castalian spring, Central Greece, Delphi, Greece, Phocis, Plans and drawings

ig. 1, 2, 3: Quarter plan, elevation, and part of a section of a Doric capital found in a convent at Daphne. Fig. 4: Doric capital in the church of Stauromenos Petros. Fig. 5: Fragments in the metope of Mendeli. Fig. 6: Doric capital found in a ruined church, on the left hand of the road from the town of Athens, to the Turkish burial ground, facing the gate of the Acropolis. Fig. 7. Fillets of the above capital.

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

Fig. 1: Fragments of a cornice of the Ionic order found on the hill above the seats of the Theatre of Bacchus. Fig. 2: The interior face of an architrave which is built up in a modern wall under an arch of the bridge over the Ilissus. Fig. 3: The capital of a pilaster in the wall of the bastion fronting the Propylea. Fig. 4: Attic base on the convent at Colouri. Fig. 5, 6, 7: Plan, elevation and section of an Ionic capital, probably found in the church of St. George, on Mount Anchesmus.

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

Odeon of Herodes Atticus, Athens: Section of the theatre through the scene.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Greece, Odeon of Herodes Atticus, Plans and drawings

Odeon of Herodes Atticus, Athens: Elevation of the back of the scene.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Greece, Odeon of Herodes Atticus, Plans and drawings

Odeon of Herodes Atticus, Athens: Elevation of the front of the scene.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Greece, Odeon of Herodes Atticus, Plans and drawings

Propylaea of the Acropolis of Athens: Fig. 1: Mouldings of the architrave internally. Fig. 2: Capital of the antae. Pinacotheca: Fig. 3: Capital of the pilaster.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Greece, Plans and drawings, Propylaea of the Acropolis, Temple of Athena Nike (Acropolis)

Erechtheion: Fig. 1: Capital of the antae, with the continued mouldings and ornaments of the front wall, and a section of the Lacunariae. Fig. 2: Elevation of the external side of the antae, shewing some difference in the ornaments. Fig. 3, 4, 5, 6: Different ornaments under the flowers. Fig. 7: Section of the ornament at a, fig. 3. Fig. 8: Ditto at b. Fig. 9: Plan of the ceiling of the portico.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Erechtheion, Greece, Plans and drawings

The Parthenon: Fig. 1: Plan of the angle of the Temple, with the Lion's head. Fig. 2: Section of ditto. Fig.3: Capital of the antae. Fig. 4: Capital of the internal columns.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Greece, Parthenon, Plans and drawings

Impost block from Eleusis.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Attica, Eleusis, Greece

Coins from ancient Peparethus (Skopelos).

Tags: Aegean islands, Art and antiquities, Coins, Greece, Skopelos island, Sporades islands

Metopes from the south side of the Parthenon: Centauromachy.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Greece, Metopes, Parthenon

Metopes from the south side of the Parthenon: Centauromachy.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Greece, Metopes, Parthenon

Metopes from the south side of the Parthenon: Centauromachy.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Greece, Metopes, Parthenon

Metopes from the south side of the Parthenon: Centauromachy.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Greece, Metopes, Parthenon

Metopes from the south side of the Parthenon: Centauromachy.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Greece, Metopes, Parthenon

Metopes from the south side of the Parthenon: Centauromachy.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Greece, Metopes, Parthenon

Reliefs from the west frieze of the Parthenon: Cavalry.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Frieze of the Parthenon, Greece, Parthenon

Reliefs from the west frieze of the Parthenon: Cavalry.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Frieze of the Parthenon, Greece, Parthenon

Reliefs from the west frieze of the Parthenon: Cavalry.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Frieze of the Parthenon, Greece, Parthenon

Reliefs from the west frieze of the Parthenon: Cavalry.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Frieze of the Parthenon, Greece, Parthenon

Reliefs from the west frieze of the Parthenon: Cavalry.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Frieze of the Parthenon, Greece, Parthenon

Reliefs from the west frieze of the Parthenon: Cavalry.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Frieze of the Parthenon, Greece, Parthenon

Reliefs from the west frieze of the Parthenon: Cavalry.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Frieze of the Parthenon, Greece, Parthenon

Reliefs from the west frieze of the Parthenon: Cavalry.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Frieze of the Parthenon, Greece, Parthenon

Reliefs from the west frieze of the Parthenon: Cavalry.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Frieze of the Parthenon, Greece, Parthenon

Reliefs from the west frieze of the Parthenon: Cavalry.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Frieze of the Parthenon, Greece, Parthenon

Reliefs from the west frieze of the Parthenon: Cavalry.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Frieze of the Parthenon, Greece, Parthenon

Reliefs from the west frieze of the Parthenon: Cavalry.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Frieze of the Parthenon, Greece, Parthenon

Reliefs from the west frieze of the Parthenon: Cavalry.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Frieze of the Parthenon, Greece, Parthenon

Reliefs from the west frieze of the Parthenon: Cavalry.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Frieze of the Parthenon, Greece, Parthenon

The tenth and eleventh stones of the south frieze of the Parthenon: Cavalry.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Frieze of the Parthenon, Greece, Parthenon

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