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Classical antiquities

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Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

Found in 24 Collections and/or Records:

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A. J. B. Wace. British School. Athens 1003. Notebook 3 (Notes on Hellenistic sculpture), 1902 - 1903

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Reference Code: GBR/3437/AJBW/1/2
Scope and Contents Inscribed on the v. of front board, 'A. J. B. Wace. British School. Athens 1003. Notebook 3'. Notes on Hellenistic Greek sculpture, indexed at the back ff. 75 v.-76. Notes taken from a bibilographic review of the subject, organised by museum collection and/or name of the sculpture. Also includes notes made in person by Wace at the Athens Archaeological Museum, each object under study referenced by its museum number. 8 inserts: a business card in a stamped,...
Dates: 1902 - 1903
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A. J. B. Wace British School. Athens 1003. Notebook 5 (Notes on Hellenistic portraiture), 1902 - 1903

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Reference Code: GBR/3437/AJBW/1/4
Scope and Contents Inscribed on the v. of front board, 'A. J. B. Wace. British School. Athens 1003. Notebook 5'. Notes on Hellenistic portraits, indexed alphabetically at the back. Arranged by historical figure, with notes on whom the portrait depicts, the museum colleciton in which the bust can be found and key bibliography. 4 inserts: 3 leaves of of rough notes and 1 leaf of blotting paper. The notebook is undated, presumed to be a record of Wace's intensive studies of Greek sculpture...
Dates: 1902 - 1903
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A. J. B. Wace Notebook 1 (Notes on Hellenistic sculpture in museum collections), 1902 - 1903

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Reference Code: GBR/3437/AJBW/1/1
Scope and Contents Inscribed on the v. of front board, 'A. J. B. Wace N. B. 1'. Notes on Hellenistic Greek sculpture held in European museums, including referenced summaries from bibliography Wace had read on each. Notes on one sculpture per folio, written on the r. only (except for 'Alexandrine art', f. 60, on which he made copious notes on r. and v). Indexed alphabetically at the back, ff. 84-86. The notebook is undated, presumed to be a record of Wace's intensive studies of Greek sculpture and art...
Dates: 1902 - 1903
Conditions Governing Access: Closed to readers, fragile.
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Book C [Classical sculpture in museum collections], 1902 - 1903

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Reference Code: GBR/3437/AJBW/3/4
Scope and Contents Photographs of classical sculpture, arranged and labelled by AJBW by museum collection and thereafter by the name of the sculpture or by object accession number. Includes images from the Louvre, Dresden, Berlin, the Cast Gallery of the Museum of Classical Archaeology, Cambridge, UK (MOCA); Cairo and Alexandria museums, Egypt, and possibly the library of the British School at Rome. The siginificance of AJBW's initials 'C. D.' after some descriptions is unknown. 95 photographic...
Dates: 1902 - 1903
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Classics Faculty - Teaching collection of glass lantern slides

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Reference Code: GBR/3437/CLAS
Scope and Contents

The Faculty of Classics' teaching collection of monochrome glass lantern slides, featuring ancient Greek and Roman architecture, sculpture, pottery, coins and other artefacts from classical antiquity.

Dates: 1910-1934
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Cockerell: Two volumes of Inscriptions collected by Charles Robert Cockerell (1788-1863), architect and archaeologist

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Reference Code: GBR/3437/CKRL
Scope and Contents Two volumes, each respectively entitled on the spine, 'MS. Inscriptions collected in Greece by C. R. Cockerell, 1810–14, I' and 'MS. Inscriptions collected in Greece by C. R. Cockerell, 1810–14, II'. A description of the contents is written on the title page of Volume One, possibly by C. R. Cockerell himsef: ‘Inscriptions collected in various parts of Greece by C. R. Cockerell, from the year 1810–14; they were copied from the original manuscripts in this form by Signor Amati, in Rome,...
Dates: 1815
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Half plate Negative Album Book 3, bulk: 1905-1910

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Reference Code: GBR/3437/AJBW/3/53
Scope and Contents 50 halfplate negatives. The Index as filled in by AJBW only goes up to and includes Item 39. Many negatives removed long before accession to the Faculty Archives, as part of an 'HS Series', by AJBW. Includes views of Pergamon in western Asia Minor (Turkey), the island of Delos, Geraki and Mistras in Lakonia, classical sculpture in museum collections in Rome and Turin, pottery in Thessaly, the Acropolis of Athens, Lykabettos, the British School at Athens Hostel and finally, a...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1905-1910
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Halfplate Negative Album Book 2, 1905

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Reference Code: GBR/3437/AJBW/3/52
Scope and Contents

52 halfplate negatives of museum objects in Sparta Museum, sites in Lakonia (Gerki, Monemvasia), Volos and its environs in Thessaly and the island of Skopelos. Some images of classical scuplture from other European museum collections (mainly Berlin).

Dates: 1905
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Joseph Bonomi: Correspondence and Papers

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9389
Scope and Contents The collection comprises mostly Joseph Bonomi's correspondence and papers, with some of his brother Ignatius Bonomi and other members of his family, especially his sister-in-law Isabella Mary Martin. The non-family correspondence includes letters with Samuel Birch, Egyptologist at the British Museum, George Spencer Cautley, rector and poet, Charles Robert Cockerell, architect, John Gibson, sculptor, James Haliburton, Egyptologist, Robert Hay, Egyptologist, Owen Jones, architect, Edward Lane,...
Dates: 1813-1878 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Negative Album [archaeological sites in western Asia Minor]

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Reference Code: GBR/3437/AJBW/3/57
Scope and Contents

74 negatives of views from Asia Minor, indexed at the front. Listed up until sleeve 72, with some of these negatives missing upon accession to the archives. Further views that were not indexed by AJBW are not immediately identifiable.

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Negative Album inscribed on flyleaf 'Audrey from Johnny', 1901 - 1902

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Reference Code: GBR/3437/AJBW/3/50
Scope and Contents

96 negatives of classical (mainly Hellenistic) sculpture in various European museum collections, casts in the Museum of Classical Archaeology, views of Rome and also of the Wace family on the river in Cambridge. Index at the front written in pencil by AJBW.
Audrey Eugenia Bayard Wace (1882 -1959) was A. J. B. Wace's younger sister and Gaston Frederick Bayard Wace (1890-1950) his younger brother.

Dates: 1901 - 1902
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Notebook A, J. H. Middleton, Naples 1856, 1856 - Nov. 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/3437/JHMN/1/1
Scope and Contents The label on the front board states that this was J. H. Middleton's notebook in 1856. This would have been when JHM was age ten. However, the notebook is filled with copious notes and illustrated when JHM was an adult, starting from age twenty. The notebook is a mix of notes taken from reading upon the subject of Classical art and archaeology, visiting the British Museum, attending lectures such as one on Ephesus at the Royal Institution in 1875, and in situ measured drawings made while...
Dates: 1856 - Nov. 1899
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Photograph of the Sculpture gallery at Chatsworth House, Derbyshire, 1920s

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Reference Code: GBR/3437/AJBW/3/38
Scope and Contents From the Series: This series contains Alan Wace's personal photographic collection, including original bound photograph albums containing both positive and negative prints. Dated materials cover the period 1905 to 1941; however some undated material is inferred to be earlier or later than these dates, between circa 1901-1955. The photographs were in the majority taken during Wace's topographical and archaeological surveys on behalf of the British School at Athens, for example in Lakonia and Thessaly, and the...
Dates: 1920s
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Rawson papers: Box 1, 1968 - 1988

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Reference Code: GBR/3124/NHPP 1/17/1
Scope and Contents From the Sub-sub-management:

See also Records of NH Members in NHPM 1 (especially files of press cuttings, cvs in NHPM1/1).

Dates: 1968 - 1988
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Rawson papers: Box 2, 1968 - 1988

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Reference Code: GBR/3124/NHPP 1/17/2
Scope and Contents From the Sub-sub-management:

See also Records of NH Members in NHPM 1 (especially files of press cuttings, cvs in NHPM1/1).

Dates: 1968 - 1988
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Rawson papers: Box 3, 1968 - 1988

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Reference Code: GBR/3124/NHPP 1/17/3
Scope and Contents From the Sub-sub-management:

See also Records of NH Members in NHPM 1 (especially files of press cuttings, cvs in NHPM1/1).

Dates: 1968 - 1988
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Rawson papers: Box 4, 1968 - 1988

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Reference Code: GBR/3124/NHPP 1/17/4
Scope and Contents From the Sub-sub-management:

See also Records of NH Members in NHPM 1 (especially files of press cuttings, cvs in NHPM1/1).

Dates: 1968 - 1988
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Rawson papers: Box 6, 1968 - 1988

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Reference Code: GBR/3124/NHPP 1/17/6
Scope and Contents From the Sub-sub-management:

See also Records of NH Members in NHPM 1 (especially files of press cuttings, cvs in NHPM1/1).

Dates: 1968 - 1988
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Reynolds: The Papers of Joyce Maire Reynolds (1918-2022), classical epigrapher

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Reference Code: GBR/3437/JMRD
Scope and Contents This archive comprises the working papers of Joyce Reynolds, including her own handwritten and typescript drafts of her academic publications, off-prints of those articles, correspondence with scholars seeking her advice on challenging inscriptions which required translation, copious photographs of Classical inscriptions, archaeological sites, architecture and statuary from Rome, the ancient city of Aphrodisias in western Turkey and from across Libya. Another aspect of professional life was...
Dates: 1912 - 2022
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Richard Goodchild's collection of Richard Norton's Cyrene Site and Small Finds photographs, 1911-1967

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Reference Code: GBR/3437/JMRD/5/3
Scope and Contents Original photographic prints from the 1910-1911 Amercian archaeological expedition to Cyrene in Libya, many are annotated on the back by Arthur Sladden. The photographs begin with views of the site, in particular the northern necropolis, and some pictures of members of the team: the leader Richard Norton, the medical officer Arthur Sladden and the photographer Lawrence Mott. The site photographs include one print annotated with a cross indicating the exact spot where the epigrapher...
Dates: 1911-1967
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Rolled Negatives of images of Alexandria Sculpture, 1902 - 1903

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Reference Code: GBR/3437/AJBW/3/61
Scope and Contents

Labelled on the side of the box 'Alexandria Sculpture', the box also features a printed stamp which reads 'Emulsion No.19044 30 - Sensitometer Notice this film must be developed before Nov. 1st 1903'.

Dates: 1902 - 1903
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Sir Richard Colt Hoare: Journals of tours in Italy and Europe

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3545-3555
Scope and Contents

Journals and notebooks of Hoare's extensive European tours, mainly through Italy.

Dates: 1785-1791
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Wace: The Papers of Alan John Bayard Wace (1879-1957), archaeologist

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Reference Code: GBR/3437/AJBW
Scope and Contents These papers pertain to the work of archaeologist Professor Alan J. B. Wace which was undertaken by him in professional contexts other than Mycenae, Greece. This collection comprises archaeological notebooks dating in their majority prior to Wace's commencement of excavations at Mycenae in 1920, albums of photographs and photographic negatives of Mediterranean travels, maps of Greece, newspaper clippings pertainly to archaeological discoveries, correspondence on archaeological topics and the...
Dates: 1880-1973