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Reference (shelfmark):: Neg 1240(100)
Title:: Herat (Western Afghanistan). Gohar Shad's Musalla, angle minaret, 1417-1437. Detail of Kufic panels below base of west minaret. Marble Photographer: Byron, Robert
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Nov 1933
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Neg 1240(115)
Title:: Herat (Western Afghanistan). Jami Masjid, founded by Ghiyas-ad-Din ibn Sam, 1200. Many additions. Founder's inscription, fancy bricks. The only remnant of the original decoration. 1200. Photographer: Byron, Robert
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Nov 1933
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Neg 1240(221)
Title:: Isfahan. Mausoleum of Sayyid Ja'aftar, dated 1341. Brick and faience. Showing small inscription panel. Photographer: Byron, Robert
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1933
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: P1940
Title:: 'Textes Hieroglyphiques des Inscriptions Bilingues de Philes'. Lithograph published c.1849.
Scope & Content:: 'Textes Hieroglyphiques des Inscriptions Bilingues de Philes'. Lithograph published c.1849.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1849
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: P3062
Title:: Greek inscription on Rosetta Stone. Engraving by James Basire. Published by the Society of Antiquaries, London, 1802. Includes a page of text describing this and other plates of the Stone. Artist(s): Basire, James (1769-1822)
Scope & Content:: Greek inscription on Rosetta Stone. Engraving by James Basire. Published by the Society of Antiquaries, London, 1802. Includes a page of text describing this and other plates of the Stone.. Artist(s): Basire, James (1769-1822)
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1802
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: P3062b
Title:: Greek inscription on Rosetta Stone, engraved by James Basire. Published by the Society of Antiquaries, London, 1802. Page of text describing this and other plates of the Stone. Artist(s): Basire, James (1769-1822)
Scope & Content:: Greek inscription on Rosetta Stone, engraved by James Basire. Published by the Society of Antiquaries, London, 1802. Page of text describing this and other plates of the Stone.. Artist(s): Basire, James (1769-1822)
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1802
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: P3166
Title:: 'Epitaphes. Tirees des tombeaux Chinois de Coupang, sur l'ile Timor'. Artist(s): Olivier, Emile Edmond (b.1800) after Taunay, Adrien Aime (1803-1828)
Scope & Content:: 'Epitaphes. Tirees des tombeaux Chinois de Coupang, sur l'ile Timor'.. Artist(s): Olivier, Emile Edmond (b.1800) after Taunay, Adrien Aime (1803-1828)
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1830
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 120(5)
Title:: Betgeri. Viragal with Kanarese inscription. Photographer: Cousens, Henry
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography View of a massive sculptured viragal or hero stone (some 12–13 feet high), with an Indian figure posed beside it to indicate scale. Reproduced in Henry Cousens, 'The Chalukyan Architecture of the Kanarese Districts' (Archaeological Survey of India, vol. XLII, Ne...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1880s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 120(8)
Title:: Harihar Temple. Kanarese inscription of Saka 1145. Photographer: Dixon, Henry
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography Close view of inscribed stone, with sculptural panel above. For another copy of this print, see Photo 1000/1 (28).
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1865
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 146/1(166)
Title:: Ratnagiri, The Konkun Coast. Inscription on the tomb of King Theebaw. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:: Theebaw, King of Lower Burma, was brought here in exile in 1886, and died here in 1916. With him came his two queens, his daughters, and an extensive and picturesque suite. The latter in time all drifted away, and at the end, only locally engaged staff were employed. The senior queen died first,...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1930-1939
Extent:: 1 item

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