Section of frieze showing warriors fighting, found at Mausoleum [of Halicarnassus, Bodrum]. Photographer: Spackman, Benjamin L.
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Genre: Archaeological Photography The second of the two photographs enclosed in Newton's despatch no. 16 of 11 May 1857: 'On the eastern side of the Mausoleum I was so fortunate as to find a most beautiful piece of frieze with three figures of which I enclose a photograph.' (Mss. Add. 46889A f....
No. 1. Frieze, east side of Mausoleum [of Halicarnassus, Bodrum]. Photographer: Spackman, Benjamin L.
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Genre: Archaeological Photography Close view of section of frieze. Prints 53-57 form part of the enclosure with Newton's despatch no. 19 of 12 June 1857: 'I have been enabled to complete the digging of the northeastern angle and I had the satisfaction of finding here two more slabs of frieze, o...
No. 2. Frieze, east side of Mausoleum [of Halicarnassus, Bodrum]. Photographer: Spackman, Benjamin L.
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Genre: Archaeological Photography Close view of section of frieze showing an Amazon fighting a Greek warrior. Prints 53-57 form part of the enclosure with Newton's despatch no. 19 of 12 June 1857. See note at print 53. Reproduced as a tinted lithograph in Charles Thomas Newton, 'A History of Di...
No. 3. Colossal face, north side of Mausoleum [of Halicarnassus, Bodrum]. Photographer: Spackman, Benjamin L.
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Genre: Archaeological Photography Close view of a sculptured head. Prints 53-57 form part of the enclosure with Newton's despatch no. 19 of 12 June 1857: 'Close to this portion of the head of the horse I found a face broken off from a male colossal head. I have little doubt that this belongs to...
No. 4. Hellenic wall north of the Mausoleum [of Halicarnassus, Bodrum]. Photographer: Spackman, Benjamin L.
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Genre: Archaeological Photography View of section of wall, built from large, finely jointed masonry blocks, with Corporal Jenkins standing at the left. Prints 53-57 form part of the enclosure with Newton's despatch no. 19 of 12 June 1857: 'No. 4. The Hellenic wall north of the Mausoleum, immedi...
No. 5. Head from north side, Mausoleum [of Halicarnassus, Bodrum]. Photographer: Spackman, Benjamin L.
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Genre: Archaeological Photography Close view of sculpture of male head. Prints 53-57 form part of the enclosure with Newton's despatch no. 19 of 12 June 1857: 'A little beyond this spot to the east I found a smaller bearded face broken off in like manner from the head so as to present three qua...
Room A, section 1 of tessellated mosaic pavement discovered in Hadji Captan's Field, Budrum. Photographer: Spackman, Benjamin L.
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Genre: Archaeological Photography Close view of a section of the mosaic floor uncovered at Bodrum and now re-assembled in the British Museum. With a oencilled note, partially cropped off, on the back of the print. This is one of the series of prints (comprising ff. 63-161, 163) of the mosaics e...