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Misc 1, Cerigo - England, 1802 - 1803

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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

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

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