Subject: Rock-cut Inscriptions - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1358
Title:: Inscriptions from Swat. Photographer(s): Unknown
Scope & Content:: Collection of 116 loose prints (the majority in multiple copies), of rock-carved inscriptions from the Swat Valley. The majority are published in M. A. Stein, Notes on new inscriptions discovered by Major Deane ('Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal', vol. 67, no. 1, 1898, pp. 1-19). Several...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1890s
Extent:: 116 items

Reference (shelfmark):: S.W.275, 2(9)
Title:: The Asoka Rock in 1869 [Junagadh]. Photographer: Sykes, David Harold Day
Scope & Content:: Genre: Archaeological Photography General view of massive boulder with Asokan inscription. The photograph was taken for Burgess by the commercial photographer David H. Sykes in 1869. Another copy at APAC Photo 1000/7 (814).
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1869
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Wf1/4622(3)
Title:: View in the quarries at Hager Silsilis. Photographer: Frith, Francis
Scope & Content:: Inscription: Signed 'Frith E. No. 38 1857' in the negative (date partially cropped). Genre: Archaeological Photography View looking along the rock face in the quarries at Gebel el-Silsila, with the entrance to a rock-cut temple and a large inscribed tablet carved in a massive boulder in the fo...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1857
Extent:: 1 item

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