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032-003238807 Subject Archaeological excavations

1. Add MS 31980(194)

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Add MS 31980(194)
Title:
[Lion sculpture at Cnidus.] Photographer: McCartney, J.
Scope & Content:
Genre: Archaeological Photography Showing figures posed beside the massive lion statue excavated at Cnidus, with part of the sheerlegs used to transport it visible in the background. The lion now stands in the Great Court of the British Museum. Photograph uncredited, but probably by Macartney.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1858
Extent:
1 item

2. Add MS 31980(324)

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Add MS 31980(324)
Title:
[Unidentified ruins, possibly at Lagina?] Photographer: Spackman, Benjamin L.
Scope & Content:
Genre: Archaeological Photography Distant view. Prints 327-327 show the same structure.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1857
Extent:
1 item

3. Add MS 31980(176)

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Add MS 31980(176)
Title:
Cnidus. Tomb of Lykaethios. Photographer: McCartney, J.
Scope & Content:
Genre: Archaeological Photography Showing Charles Newton (seated on right) and two sailors, posed among the remains of sarcophagi at Cnidus. Reproduced as a tinted lithograph in Charles Thomas Newton, 'A History of Discoveries at Halicarnassus, Cnidus and Branchidae' (2 vols., London, 1861), vo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1858
Extent:
1 item

4. Add MS 31980(186)

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Add MS 31980(186)
Title:
Cnidus. Odeum. Photographer: McCartney, J.
Scope & Content:
Genre: Archaeological Photography View of the partially excavated theatre. Reproduced as a tinted lithograph in Charles Thomas Newton, 'A History of Discoveries at Halicarnassus, Cnidus and Branchidae' (2 vols., London, 1861), vol. 1, plate 54 (top).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1858
Extent:
1 item

5. Add MS 31980(200)

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Add MS 31980(200)
Title:
[Transporting the lion sculpture at Cnidus.] Photographer: McCartney, J.
Scope & Content:
Genre: Archaeological Photography Showing the crated sculpture supported by two sheerlegs during its transportation down the hillside to the harbour. This view shows one sheerleg partly collapsed. See also print 201. The volume also contains a watercolour (199, f. 98) of the sculpture being mov...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1858
Extent:
1 item

6. Add MS 31980(201)

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Add MS 31980(201)
Title:
[Transporting the lion sculpture at Cnidus.] Photographer: McCartney, J.
Scope & Content:
Genre: Archaeological Photography A similar view to print 200, showing the crated sculpture being moved with sheerlegs. Another copy of this photograph was sent by Newton to Panizzi in December 1858: see
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1858
Extent:
1 item

7. Add MS 31980(232d)

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Add MS 31980(232d)
Title:
[Branchidae. Sculpture of a lion.] Photographer: Spackman, Benjamin L.
Scope & Content:
Genre: Archaeological Photography Side view of incomplete lion sculpture, photographed at find spot.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1857
Extent:
1 item

8. Add MS 31980(177)

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Add MS 31980(177)
Title:
Cnidus. Tomb of Lykaethios. Photographer: McCartney, J.
Scope & Content:
Genre: Archaeological Photography Duplicate copy of print 176.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1858
Extent:
1 item

9. Add MS 31980(231)

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Add MS 31980(231)
Title:
[Branchidae. Lion sculpture, partly excavated.] Photographer: Spackman, Benjamin L.
Scope & Content:
Genre: Archaeological Photography Incomplete sculpture of a lion, photographed at find spot. Photograph uncredited, but probably by Spackman.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1857
Extent:
1 item

10. Add MS 31980(333)

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Add MS 31980(333)
Title:
[Base of an unidentified column.] Photographer: Spackman, Benjamin L.
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Inscribed in the negative: 'B. L. Spackman No. 11.' Genre: Archaeological Photography Original calotype paper negative pasted into volume, showing the base of a column, with a measuring rod standing beside it. With a positive image mounted on the facing page (print 335).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1857-1858
Extent:
1 item