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Sparta

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

Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:

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Book H [views of Cairo and Alexandria, Egypt; Sparta and Olympia museums, Greece], 1902 - 1904

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Reference Code: GBR/3437/AJBW/3/10
Scope and Contents

Photographs of archaeological sites, each photograph titled in pencil on the cardboard mount by AJBW. Includes images from Cairo and Alexandria, Egypt, and Sparta and Olympia musums in Greece.
22 photographic prints. Followed by 26 empty apertures, from the lack of annotation it seems they remained unfilled by AJBW.

Dates: 1902 - 1904
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Cruise 1906 and Sparta and some 1905 [Negatives], 1905 - 1906

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Reference Code: GBR/3437/AJBW/3/62
Scope and Contents

34 negative prints of Wace's archaeological travels in Greece, and western Asia Minor (Turkey), during 1905 and 1906, including the town of Sparta in Lakonia.

Dates: 1905 - 1906
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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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Prints marked 'possible for scenery slides, Sparta (Taygetus)'

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Reference Code: GBR/3437/AJBW/3/37
Scope and Contents

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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Skiathos, Skopelos [Negatives], 1905

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Reference Code: GBR/3437/AJBW/3/76
Scope and Contents

Images of ancient walls - either of ancient Selinous (Σελινοῦς) or Panormos (Πάνορμος), the Demarch of Glossa (D. Stamatiou) and his wife (see AJBW/3/11/57 for the postive print) and an ancient pot.

Dates: 1905
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Untitled [Lead figurines and miscellaneous small antiquities, Sparta Museum, Lakonia, site photos of the Menelaion, the Taygetus mountains and the river Eurotas], 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/3437/AJBW/3/15
Scope and Contents 25 whole plate photographs of small lead figurines from the excavtions at the Sanctuary of Artemis Orthis at Sparta, Lakonia. 2 photographs cut down from original full plate prints, of Geometric pottery and a small freestanding figurine. 11 half plate prints (2 cut down into a smaller size) of stone architectural elements and stone sculptures. 31 full plate photographs of architectual fragments, figurines, pottery, small objects in bone, stone and metal. The majority of...
Dates: 1909
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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
Scope and Contents

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
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Untitled [Sparta Museum sculpture], 1905

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Reference Code: GBR/3437/AJBW/3/14
Scope and Contents 64 photographs of stone sculpture and reliefs in the Sparta Museum, Lakonia. Each object is pictured proximate to a museum label with its museum number, therefore the identity of all objects can be ascertained via Wace's catalogue of the Sparta Museum. 1 negative, of a female classical sculpture. I small envelope from a Greek photography studio with AJBW annotations written on it in red pencil and black ink, including the comment 'Can it be drawn?'. The envelope contained two small...
Dates: 1905