architectural drawing;
album;
print study
- Museum number
- 2013,5005.2.54
- Description
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Plan and architectural fragments of the temple at Herakleia under Latmos, with measurements
Pen and ink on a sheet of paper stuck down on to a second sheet pasted into the volume.
- Production date
- 1764-1765
- Dimensions
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Height: 373 millimetres (first sheet)
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Height: 740 millimetres (volume)
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Width: 259 millimetres (first sheet)
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Width: 530 millimetres (volume)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- For a description of this album see 2013,5005.2.1
This drawing is a print study for an engraving in 'Antiquities of Ionia', 1797, Part II, plate XXXIV
'...the most conspicuous ruin is the small temple of Bacchus, which is seated on an abrupt rock, with the front only, which is toward the east, accessible. The roof is destroyed. The cell is well-built, of smooth stone with a brown crust on it. The portico was in antis. We measured some marble fragments belonging to it, and regretted that any of the members were missing. This edifice has been used as a church, and the entrance walled up with patch-work. The marbles, which lie scattered about, the broken columns, and mutilated statues, all witness a remote antiquity. We met with some inscriptions, but not legible...'
Richard Chandler, 'Travels in Asia Minor' (1775), p.206
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1800 (June)
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 2013,5005.2.54
