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8, GREECE, ATHENS, ACROPOLIS, ATHENS, TEMPLE OF ATHENA NIKE

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  • Record Number: 8
  • Title on Photograph: 'TEMPLE OF VICTORY'
  • Material: PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINT
  • Site: GREECE, ATHENS, ACROPOLIS
  • Monument: ATHENS, TEMPLE OF ATHENA NIKE
  • Image Date: 1869
  • Photographer: STILLMAN, WILLIAM JAMES
  • Comments on Photo: 23.7 x 18.5 cm. ALBUMEN PRINT NO.7
  • Comments on Subject: DESCRIBED IN STILLMAN AS "EASTERN FACADE OF THE TEMPLE OF VICTORY. THIS TEMPLE WAS ENTIRELY DESTROYED DURING THE TURKISH OCCUPATION OF ATHENS, AND ITS STONES, CAREFULLY COLLECTED FROM THE WALLS, WHERE THEY HAD BEEN USED AS BUILDING MATERIAL, WERE PLACED IN THEIR ORIGINAL POSITION BY TWO GERMAN ARCHITECTS, ROSS AND SCHAUBERT, IN 1835-6."
  • Bibliography: STILLMAN, WILLIAM JAMES, ACROPOLIS OF ATHENS, ILLUSTRATED PICTURESQUELY AND ARCHITECTURALLY IN PHOTOGRAPHY, LONDON 1970
    DELIVORRIAS, A. ET AL, ATHENS 1839-1900, A PHOTOGRAPHIC RECORD, ATHENS 1985
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