Nablous, the 'Sichem' of the Old Testament, and the 'Sychar' of the New. Photographer: Frith, Francis
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Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View looking across the rooftops of the 'thriving town of some 10,000 or 12,000 inhabitants, with extensive manufactories of soaps and other articles.'
The town and lake of Tiberias, from the north. Photographer: Frith, Francis
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Inscription: Signed 'Frith P. 129' in the negative. Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along the shore of Lake Tiberias, with ruins in the foreground: 'My view is taken from a point immediately above the north-west corner of the town. It embraces a tower of the Roman castle, now partly ...
Tiberias, from the south. Photographer: Frith, Francis
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Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View along the waterfront: 'I judge that the waters of the lake have encroached considerably upon the Roman town of Tiberias, or else that the sea-wall has crumbled away, leaving the towers or bastions only standing far out into the water. From one of thes...
Banias, the ancient Caesarea Philippi. Photographer: Frith, Francis
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Inscription: Signed 'Frith P. 137' in the negative. Genre: Landscape Photography View of ruined houses at Baniyas, 'situated about midway on the road usually taken by travellers between Tiberias and Damascus.'
St Paul's Wall, Damascus. Photographer: Frith, Francis
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Inscription: Signed 'Frith P. 131' in the negative Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View looking along the city wall and the road running alongside it: 'The subject of the present picture is the traditional site of St Paul's midnight adventure — the suppository part of the wall from whic...
Distant view of Damascus, from Salihiyeh. Photographer: Frith, Francis
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Inscription: Signed 'Frith P. 140' in the negative. Genre: Urban Topographical Photography Distant view of the city, with unidentified ruins in the foreground.
Baalbec, from the south. Photographer: Frith, Francis
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Inscription: Signed 'Frith P. 1--' in the negative (cropped). Genre: Archaeological Photography View looking across fields towards the six standing columns of the south peristasis of the Temple of Jupiter Heliopolitanus.
The Great Pillars and smaller temple, Baalbac. Photographer: Frith, Francis
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Inscription: Signed 'Frith P. 143' in the negative. Genre: Archaeological Photography Close view of the pillars of the Temple of Jupiter Heliopolitanus, with the Temple of Bacchus beyond.