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Thessaly (region)

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Subject Source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names

Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:

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A. J. B. Wace. British School, Athens. 21.2.03, Notebook 6 (Topography), 1903

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Reference Code: GBR/3437/AJBW/1/5
Scope and Contents Inscribed on the v. of front board, 'A. J. B. Wace. British School. Athens 1003. Notebook 6'. Notes on the topography of Alexandria, summarising Strabo, with 2 hand drawn copies of plans of the city pasted in at f.1r and f.2r. Notes on bibliographical references of comments by authors in antiquity of sites in Skiathos and Skopelos, Towns of Magnetes (Thessalian Magnesia). Also, Wace's own notes on Byzantine ruins, Modern villages of Thessaly, lists of individuals of note...
Dates: 1903
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Demetrias. S. Magnesia. Skiathos. Skopelos, April 1905

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Reference Code: GBR/3437/AJBW/1/13
Scope and Contents Notes made on a journey Wace took with van Buren in April 1905, through the Magnesian peninsula of Thessaly, Greece and on to the islands of Skiathos and Skopelos in the Northern Sporades. In Magnesia he made notes on archaeological, topographical and architectural features, including Byzantine churches, encountered at Demetrias, Iolcus-Episkope [modern Volos], Pagasae, Dimini, Milies, Neleia, Korope, Neochori, Argelaste (Leiphokastro) and Olizon. On Skopelos, in addition to noting...
Dates: April 1905
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French, D. H. : Papers of David Henry French (1933-2017), archaeologist, relating to Aegean archaeology and prehistoric pottery surveys in Greece

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Reference Code: GBR/3437/DHFH
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Thessaly, Macedonia and Thrace pottery surveys 1959-1963 (working notes, hand drawn maps and site plans and pottery drawings); DPhil thesis; Mycenae pre-Mycenaean pottery survey; Greek, British and Austrian maps of Greece and the Balkans; published reference books by other authors on topics central to D. H. French's research

Dates: 1959 - 2017
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Goritsa and Demetrias [Γορίτσα and Δημητριάς, Negatives], 1905

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Reference Code: GBR/3437/AJBW/3/79
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Images of the archaeological sites of Goritsa and Demetrias in the environs of the town of Volos in Thessaly, Greece. Featuring several ancient fortification walls, landscape and the coastline below the high vantage point.

Dates: 1905
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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 1, 1906 - 1907

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Reference Code: GBR/3437/AJBW/3/51
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37 halfplate negatives of Theotokou in Thessaly, objects in Sparta Museum in Lakonia, the Cycladic islands of Amorgos, Anafi, Antiparos, Folegandros, Naxos, Sikinos, Kimolos, the Dodekanese islands of Astypalaia, Kalymnos, Leros, Nisyros, Patmos, Telos and also the eastern Aegean island of Samos. At the album's end are 5 views of the British School at Athens.

Dates: 1906 - 1907
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Halfplate Negative Album Book 2, 1905

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Reference Code: GBR/3437/AJBW/3/52
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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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Halos Hall or Reumatic Adventures in search of antiquities by Lord Rufford of Tooting accompanied by his faithful dragoman Cassius, April, May1912

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Reference Code: GBR/3437/AJBW/1/18
Scope and Contents Sub titled 'Detailing some futile endeavours to make great discoveries in Thessaly'. Preceded by a note on local dialect, Excavation diary for Halos, from 23 April to 4 May, with sketch plans with levels, tables of levels measurements. Notes on a surface pottery field survey around Zerelia and Tsangli, including notes on inscriptions, to the end of May. Followed, at the back, by notes on modern Greek vocabulary and observations of contemporary Greek daily life. Includes...
Dates: April, May1912
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The Romance of Excavation Vol. III , March, April 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/3437/AJBW/1/17
Scope and Contents Sub titled 'Detailing some futile endeavours to make great discoveries in Thessaly'. Excavation diary, sketch plans with levels, tables of levels measurements. Tsangli Magoula (mound) from 21 March to 11 April. Magoula of Rachmani 14 Apr to 26 April Followed by notes on inscriptions, on modern Greek vocabulary and observations of contemporary Greek daily life. Includes wage tallies and record of expenses at the back. 1 insert of a hand-drawn topographical map of...
Dates: March, April 1910
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Thessaly, Jan-Feb 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/3437/AJBW/3/21
Scope and Contents 29 positive photographic prints in total of 27 views of landscape, coastline, ancient fortification walls and archaeological ruins, villages and villagers - often dressed as mummers (actors). 2 negative photographic prints for which no positive print exists. Together with an envelope titled and dated by AJBW, 'Thessaly, Jan-Feb1910'. AJBW wrote a title in pencil on the back for 16 of the prints, if he doubted his attribution of place, he included a question mark to denote his...
Dates: Jan-Feb 1910
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Thessaly views, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/3437/AJBW/3/17
Scope and Contents 22 positive photographic prints of 11 views of landscape, ancient walls, a monastery, contemporary wattle huts of reeds and archaeological mounds (tells) in Thessaly, Greece. (9 images have two prints each, Item 4 is a single print, Item 10 has 3 prints). An envelope addressed to A. J. B. Wace at Leslie Lodge, Hall Place, St Albans, inscribed 'Photographs' and franked 1909 from Greece, has an additional annotation in pencil by AJBW, 'Thessaly 1909'. 9 negatives correspond to the...
Dates: 1909
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Untitled Album [Lakonia, Magnesia-Thessaly, Sporades and Pergamon], 1905

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Reference Code: GBR/3437/AJBW/3/11
Scope and Contents Album of photographs of archaeological sites, landscape and architectural features, each photograph titled in pencil on the cardboard mount by AJBW. Includes images from Lakonia (Arkasades, Xerokambi, Geraki, Mari, Molai, Epidaurus Limera, Monemvasia, Dhaskalio, Zarax), Thessaly (the Magnesian peninsula including Demetrias/Iolkos, Pagasae, Dimini, Olizon), islands in the Sporades archipelago (Skopelos, Skiathos), Arkadia (Leonidi) and Pergamon in Asia Minor (western Turkey). 93...
Dates: 1905
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Untitled Album [Lakonia, Thessaly, Skiathos, Skopelos], 1905

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Reference Code: GBR/3437/AJBW/3/12
Scope and Contents Album of photographs of archaeological sites, laandscape and architectural features in Lakonia (Arkasades, Xerokambi, Geraki, Mari, Molai, Epidaurus Limera, Monemvasia, Dhaskalio, Zarax), Thessaly (the Magnesian peninsula including Demetrias/Iolkos/Volos, Pagasae, Dimini, Olizon) islands in the Sporades archipelago (Skopelos, Skiathos), Arkadia (Leonidi) and Pergamon in Asia Minor (western Turkey). A. J. B. Wace handwrote in pencil a title beneath the majority of the photographs, which are...
Dates: 1905
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Untitled [Metéora, Thessaly, Greece], Undated, 1908-1910?

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Reference Code: GBR/3437/AJBW/3/18
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4 photographs of views of Meteora in northern Greece. The high quality of the images and their perspective, taken from the most advantageous location possible to frame the view perfectly, suggests that these these prints were professionally taken and sold as souvenirs, which Wace then bought. The photography is very different to Wace's usual, more modest in scope, photographs that he took himself.

Dates: Undated, 1908-1910?
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Zerelia negatives (Half Plate) and Thessaly prints, Undated, 1909?-1911?

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Reference Code: GBR/3437/AJBW/3/23
Scope and Contents 8 photographs of views of landscape, coastline, ancient fortification walls, a town (Volos?), and a cheerful man with a dead cockerel, all of which pertain to Thessaly in general. 5 half plate negatives of archaeological excavation, including cist graves and an assembly of axes, which pertain specifically to Zerelia, Thessaly. 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...
Dates: Undated, 1909?-1911?