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Lakonia (region)

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Subject Source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
Scope Note: Greece, Pelopónnisos region

Found in 18 Collections and/or Records:

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Book D [Pelops Aegean Cruise, ancient sites and landscape in Arkadia, Lakonia and Attika], 1903

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Reference Code: GBR/3437/AJBW/3/5
Scope and Contents Pelops Aegean Cruise photographs, beginning with the collision at Piraeus. Images of achaeological sites at Delos, Mykonos, Melos, Thera, Knossos, Palaekastro, Rhodes, Priene, Ephesus, Assos, Troy, Mytilene and ending with an inland trip to Delphi. Additionally, Wace visited Hosios Loukas monastery on the slopes of Mt Helikon on the return journey from Delphi. Visit to the archaeological sites of Lykosura, Bassae, Valley of Neda, Olympia, Messene, Mt. Ithome, Sellasia and Corinth in Arkadia...
Dates: 1903
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Films for Slides: Mistra, Eurotas, Sparta, Rachmani, Undated, 1909-1911?

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Reference Code: GBR/3437/AJBW/3/22
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4 photographs of landscape and small settlements
20 negatives of different size, originally titled by AJBW, 'Films for Slides: Mistra, Eurotas, Sparta and Rachmani'. E. B. W. French transcibed this information by hand in black ink to a new white envelope and added, 'But inc. (includes) BSA tennis court and dig'.

Dates: Undated, 1909-1911?
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GB Museums 1961; L/R trip 1962

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Reference Code: GBR/3437/WDTR/3/2/8
Scope and Contents This file features assemblages of ancient pottery excavated in Mycenae and Agios Stephanos, Lakonia, in conjunction with images taken in Ireland (Headfort); France (Troyes, Vézelay); Italy (Siena, Viterbo, Rome, Cumae, Benevento, Catunia, Udine); Greece (Olympia, Bassae, Ithome, Brauron, Euboea); Serbia (Mileševo); Croatia (Trogir); Austria (Salzburg); Germany (Aachen); and Belgium (the frontier, Le Zoute). Images of pottery, art, gardens, cathedrals, monasteries, streets, ancient historical...
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Geraki Accounts etc. Delos, 1905

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Reference Code: GBR/3437/AJBW/1/12
Scope and Contents Excavation notes from Geraki, dated May 22, and notes from Angelona. The vast majority of the notebook is dedicated to notes on Delos, dated July 1905, with detailed, measured plans of wall decoration in the Houses. At the back of the notewook, are records of wages paid to excavation wokers at Geraki, a packing list for the excavation, and a partial draft of a play script written by Wace. 3 inserts: 2 monochrome photographic prints, at f. 10r, of archaeological tourists kistening to...
Dates: 1905
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Geraki and Laconia [Negatives], 1904-1908

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Reference Code: GBR/3437/AJBW/3/75
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Images of landscape and ancient walls, possibly images of an excavation in progress - requires postive prints to be made to identify definitively.

Dates: 1904-1908
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Geraki [Γεράκι, Negatives], 1905

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Reference Code: GBR/3437/AJBW/3/78
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Images of a Doric capital in a field, an ancient fortification wall, 2 views of a Byzantine church, a relief set in a building amidst a grove of trees, and a Lakonian landscape with the Taygetus mountains in the background.

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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Laconia

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Reference Code: GBR/3437/AJBW/3/30
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13 photographs of views of landscape and ancient walls in Lakonia, Greece.

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Laconia 1905.1906, Mar 1905-Dec 1906

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Reference Code: GBR/3437/AJBW/1/14
Scope and Contents Subtitle of volume written on the final folio, 'Highways and Byeways in Laconia. March, 1905 / May, June 1905 with F. W. H. / April, 1906 with R. M. D. / November, December,1906' Notes, sketch plans and copies of inscriptions encountered at sites in Lakonia, visited between 1905 and 1906, travelling first with Frederick Hasluck and then Richard Dawkins. Sites visited were: Sparta, Xerokambi, Sklavochori, Mistra Museum, Parori, Geraki, Molai, Kalyvia, Dhemonia, Velies, Epidauros...
Dates: Mar 1905-Dec 1906
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Laconia I [Negatives], 1904-1908

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Reference Code: GBR/3437/AJBW/3/74
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images of ancient walls, rural landscapes, a road running through an olive grove with Taygetus in the distance, a little girl and boy - siblings?, a skiff in the sea, a Greek villager-guide and archaeologists standing together in the landscape.

Dates: 1904-1908
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Laconia II 1907, 1907 - 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/3437/AJBW/1/15
Scope and Contents Sub-titled on the first folio, 'Highways and Byeways in Laconia, Arcadia, Elis & Messenia Vol. II 1907-1909'. Notes, sketch plans, sketches of lead objects and copies of inscriptions encountered at sites in Lakonia, Arkadia, Ilia and Messenia, visited between 1907 and 1909. Sites visited were: Slavochori, Kydonia, Trypi, Kalogria, Aphisio, Geraki, Sparta, Messene, Nisi, Coron, Lepreon, Phigaleia, Bassae, Samiko, Olympia, Kyparissia. At the back are jotted notes of personal...
Dates: 1907 - 1909
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Mistra, Sparta?, Athens [negatives], 1902-1907

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Reference Code: GBR/3437/AJBW/3/82
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Images of the exterior and interior of churches, Byzantine fortification walls, landscapes possibly in Lakonia and street scenes of daily life in Athens.

Dates: 1902-1907
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Prints marked 'possible for scenery slides, Sparta (Taygetus)'

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Reference Code: GBR/3437/AJBW/3/37
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5 prints and 1 envelope, annotated by AJBW, the contents designated by him, 'possible for scenery slides, Sparta (Taygetus)'. One print annotated on verso by AJBW 'Hypate' and another 'Sparta, Taygetus'.

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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 (Notebook 10, Notes on Pausanias and antiquities from Lakonia), 1904

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Reference Code: GBR/3437/AJBW/1/11
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Notes and sketches on sculptures at various sites, including Geraki and Olympia, and the Athens National Museum, with a connection to Sparta. Also includes list of Pausanias references by area.
12 inserts: leaves of loose, rough handwritten notes on sculpturewith bibliographic references.
The notebook is undated but pertains to the period when Wace first visited Lakonia, in preparation for excavating at Geraki the following year.

Dates: 1904