architectural drawing;
album
- Museum number
- 2013,5005.2.67
- Description
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Sketch of a pedestal at Sığacık near Teos
Pen and ink with traces of graphite underdrawing on a sheet of paper inlaid into a second sheet, together with 2013,5005.2.66 and 68, and pasted into the volume.
- Production date
- 1764-1765
- Dimensions
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Height: 175 millimetres (first sheet)
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Height: 740 millimetres (volume)
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Width: 100 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
'Segigeck is a large square ordinary fortress, erected, it is said, by the Genoese, on a flat; with a few brass cannon toward the sea. It was anciently called Gerae, was the port of the city Teos toward the north, and had been peopled with Chalcidensians, who arrived under Geres. It encloses some mean mud-built houses. In the wall next the water are several inscribed marbles, the colour of blue-gray, transported from Teos. Another is fixed in a fountain without the south gate. In the hot bath are two large fragments placed upside down, and serving for seats, which I examined, but hastily, fearing some infection, as the plague was known to be near. All these have been published by the learned Chishull. By a mosque, and in the burying-grounds, are some scattered fragments, and a sepulchral inscription or two. This place is reckoned eight hours from Smyrna. A view of it is given in the Ionian Antiquities.'
Richard Chandler, 'Travels in Asia Minor' (1775), p.117-118
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1800 (June)
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 2013,5005.2.67
