Zerelia negatives (Half Plate) and Thessaly prints, Undated, 1909?-1911?
Scope and Contents
8 photographs of views of landscape, coastline, ancient fortification walls, a town (Pharsala), and a cheerful man with a dead cockerel. 5 half plate negatives of archaeological excavation, including cist graves and an assembly of axes, pertain specifically to Zerelia.
AJBW wrote a title in pencil on the back for 6 of the prints, if he doubted his attribution of place, he included a question mark to denote his uncertainty. For this file, any title of an image within square brackets has been assigned after acession to the Archives, and is not an original Wace description.
Upon accession, the photos had been stored in a white envelopentitled in black ink by E. B. W. French, ''Marked Zerelia negatives (HP) and Thessaly prints, Secondary packing", i.e. Dr French has copied the details over from an original envelope thus titled by AJBW.
Dates
- Creation: Undated, 1909?-1911?
Creator
- From the Fonds: Wace, Alan John Bayard, 1879-1957 (archaeologist) (Person)
Extent
13 item(s) (8 positive prints, 5 negative prints, 1 envelope) : photographs, paper
Physical Location
Bay C, Shelf 4, Box 15
Custodial History
Former reference 'Wace Archive 039', Cambridge Transfer, Box 13
Bibliography
Physical Description
Gelatin silver contact prints
8 positive contact prints,10.2 x 6 cm
5 half plate negative prints, 12.5 x 17 cm
1 white paper envlope, annotated by EBWF in black ink
General
Dr Robin Rönnlund, of the University of Thessaly and the Swedish Institute of Athens, provided detailed descriptions for AJBW/3/23/2,3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 12 in March 2025, including GIS co-ordinates. The images had previously been unidentified except for Wace's broad-brush descriptions for 6 of the images, those description which stand outside the square brackets.
Geographic
Repository Details
Part of the University of Cambridge: Faculty of Classics Archives Repository
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Cambridge CB3 9DA United Kingdom
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