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Classical antiquities

 Subject
Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

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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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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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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