Architectural pieces in stone in the collection of the british school at athens

Annual of the British School at Athens

Volumn 95, Issue , 2000, Pages 473-483

  Tomlinson, R A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 85012427176     PISSN: 00682454     EISSN: 20452403     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0068245400004767     Document Type: Article

References (5)

1. I am grateful to the Assistant Director, Dr Lesley Beaumont, for arranging this. At the same time the pieces were photographed by Carmel Stewart. They are held by the School with the full approval of the Ministry of Culture, and are all registered with them.
2. I am most grateful to Dr Ingrid Ström for giving me a copy of this book, and to the author for letting me have larger photocopies of the relevant illustrations.
3. Hugh Plommer calls this an Istanbul capital. Similar capitals are found, for instance, at the Süleymaniyc Mosque (external arcade) and the fountain of Ahmed III. Bendtsen calls it a Muqarnas or Stalactite capital.
4. There is a similar Istanbul capital drawn it H. C. Stilling (Bendtsen, fig. 99); this was also Turkish house, but was not the same pattern as our no 211.
5. Liza Micheli, Plaka (Athens, n.d.), fig. 54, a photograph from the Benaki archive. There were possibly others Scholeio Hill, There is a similar Istanbul capital drawn it H. C. Stilling., fig. 132.