Misc 1, Cerigo - England, 1802 - 1803
File
Reference Code: GBR/3437/WMLK/4/1
Scope and Contents
N. B. The title by Leake is as inscribed on the cover but at the rear, the notebook has been inverted and a different travelogue recorded by him, beginning at Alexandria, continuing via Baalbek, Damascus, Homs, Hama, Aleppo, then to to Athens.
Includes pencil sketches of Mycenae’s Lion Gate and tholos tomb (Treasury of Atreus).
Cerigo is known today as Kythira.
Dates
- Other: 1802 - 1803
Creator
- From the Fonds: Leake, William Martin, Col., 1777-1860 (army officer, topographer, antiquarian) (Person)
Physical Description
Notebook of 3 paper sections with parchment cover.
H. 18.1 cm x W. 10 cm
Repository Details
Part of the University of Cambridge: Faculty of Classics Archives Repository
Contact:
Faculty of Classics
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Cambridge CB3 9DA United Kingdom
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Faculty of Classics
Sidgwick Avenue
Cambridge CB3 9DA United Kingdom
+441223 335193
archives@classics.cam.ac.uk