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Friday, April 20, 2018

Pompeii in pictures

[First posted in AWOL 23 September 3013, updated 20 April 2018]

Pompeii in pictures
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Pompeiiinpictures: A complete photographic plan of ancient Pompeii as it is today, produced by Jackie and Bob Dunn for those as enthusiastic about Pompeii as we are.

Pompeii Regio I Click Here Pompeii Regio II Click Here Pompeii Regio III Click Here Pompeii Regio IV Click Here Pompeii Regio V Click Here Pompeii Regio VI Click Here Pompeii Regio VII Click Here Pompeii Regio VIII Click Here Pompeii Regio IX Click Here Pompeii Herculaneum Gate Sepolcri, Villa of Diomedes, Villa of Cicero, Villa of Mosaic Columns, Villa of Mysteries and Villa Regina Boscoreale Click Here

Use the pompeiiinpictures interactive map, buttons or links to view pictures of the excavations at Pompeii of every regio, insula, house, shop, villa, temple, baths, altar, fountain, gate, tomb or tower.

Please click on a Regio of the coloured plan to go to the next plan and to the photographs or click on one of the links below.

If you prefer you can also choose between alternative colour schemes.
Please click on a Regio of the coloured plan to go to the next plan and to the photographs or click on one of the links below.
Regio:    I     II     III     IV    V     VI     VII     VIII     IX
Altare nelle strade Street Altars
Archi Arches
Terme   Baths
Fontane e acqua Fountains and water
Le Porte Gates
Mappe di Pompei Maps of Pompeii
Edifici pubblici Public Buildings
Vedute di ogni strada Street views
Templi a Pompei     Temples in Pompeii
Santuario extraurbano    Suburban Temples
  Localita Case Bottaro, Nettuno   Neptune
  Fondo Iozzino   Zeus Meilichios
    Demeter or Ceres
    Hecate-Artemis
  Sant’Abbondio   Temple of Dionysus
  Mitreo di S. Maria Capua Vetere   S. M. Capua Vetere Mithraeum

Tombe     Tombs
  Tombs outside Pompeii gates   Pompeii Tombs
  Tombe Praetorian a Porta Nola   Praetorian Tombs
      1    2    3    4
  Tomba a cabina ENEL    Tomb of the Ancarsuleni
  Fondo Azzolini Necropolis    Fondo Azzolini
  Porta Sarno necropolis    Porta Sarno Tombs
  Tombe del Fondo Prelatura   Fondo Prelatura
  Fondo Prisco   Fondo Prisco Tomb
  Fondo Santilli    Fondo Santilli Tombs
  Fondo Squillante   Fondo Squillante Tombs

Torre                                          Towers
Ville Pompei Pompeii Villas
  Villa dei Misteri   Villa of the Mysteries
  Villa di Diomede   Villa of Diomedes
  Villa di Cicerone   Villa of Cicero
  Villa delle Colonne a Mosaico   Villa of the Mosaic Columns
  Villa Imperiale a Porta Marina   Imperial Villa Porta Marina
  Villa di T. Siminius Stephanus   Villa of T. Siminius Stephanus
  Villa del fondo Ippolito Zurlo   Villa in fondo Ippolito Zurlo

 
Pompei Guide turistiche Pompeii Tourist Guides
  Guida agli scavi di Pompei   Italiano 
  A Guide to the Pompeii
       Excavations		   English 
  Guía de las excavaciones
      de Pompeya 		  Espanol
  Guide aux fouilles de Pompéi   Francais
  Führer durch die Ausgrabungen
       von Pompeji 		   Deutsch
  Путеводитель по раскопкам
       города Помпеи  
  ポンペイ遺跡ガイド    Japanese
  龐貝指南    Chinese  
  دليل بومبيي        Arabic  
 
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Friday, February 2, 2018

Holy Land Photos

Holy Land Photos
Purpose of HolyLandPhotos.org
The purpose of HolyLandPhotos.org is to make images from the lands of the Bible available free to the general public. Our emphasis is upon the images. The text accompanying the image is meant to be helpful in identifying what one is looking at in the image and to comment briefly about the significance of the image, but the text is not intended to be exhaustive. The interested person should pursue avenues of interest in relevant dictionaries and encyclopedias.
The site has been conceived, developed, and maintained on a volunteer basis by Dr. Carl Rasmussen and Jesse Gavin (see below). Carl Rasmussen provides all photos unless otherwise noted.
Please note — this is a GROWING site. Images are being added to it weekly.
Use of the Web Site
Classroom  — For those with classroom connections to the internet, you can merely log on to www.HolyLandPhotos.org and click away to show images to your class.  You are invited to include references/links to the web site in your syllabai and web pages that you maintain - so that your students can access the site for study purposes.
Bible Study  — HolyLandPhotos.org can be used by those studying the Bible. As you become interested in various places check HolyLandPhotos.org to see if images of the place or area that you are studying are available in the digital database. This can be done by checking the site list, using the search feature, or browsing by country and region.
Digital Presentations — The images in the HolyLandPhotos.org are not just for viewing, but are available for you to download and use in your digital presentations: in the classroom, in churches, in synagogues, in religious schools, etc. For downloading permission click here.
Current and Anticipated Coverage of HolyLandPhotos.org
The current coverage of this web site includes archaeological sites and views in Israel, Turkey, Greece, Jordan, and Lebanon. About 40-50 images are being added weekly.  You are invited to register here for occasional announcements on image additions.
The Images
The images in the database are JPEG format.  It has not been possible to be entirely consistent with image size or quality. We will be entering our best quality images, and will be upgrading images as better ones become available.  Look in the lower left portion of the page to click to download the best available version of an image.
Complete Site List   Topical Easy Find   There are 494 sites and 5148 photos in our database

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Wednesday, January 31, 2018

Piranesi's "Views of Rome"

Piranesi's "Views of Rome"
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In his Views of Rome (Vedute di Roma), a series of copperplate engravings, the artist, architect, author, and antiquarian Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720 – 1778) portrayed the monuments of the Eternal City and its environs not just with precision and splendor, but as part of a living landscape. In Piranesi’s prints, aristocrats saunter, women hang laundry, and peasants water their livestock among the city’s ancient ruins and Baroque buildings. The quotidian life of eighteenth-century Rome is vividly portrayed against a backdrop of atmospheric, often-decaying grandeur. The Views also preserve for posterity a Rome now lost, for many of the monuments Piranesi portrayed have since vanished. A savvy entrepreneur, the artist sold prints of his Views individually and published them in multiple editions; immensely popular in his lifetime, they have continued to win admirers since.

Drawing on a gift made by Carl R. Ganter, Class of 1899, to fund new library acquisitions, Kenyon College purchased from the London bookseller Bernard Quaritch in August, 1945 for $208.00 a massive (55 x 81 cm) two-volume edition of Views of Rome published in Paris between 1800 and 1807, after the artist’s death, by his sons Francesco and Pietro (Hind 33). This was the first edition to appear after the dramatic recovery of Piranesi’s original copperplates, which together with other valuable objects had been looted from the family’s palazzo in Rome by soldiers from the Kingdom of Naples in 1799 and recovered by a British warship that had intercepted a Neapolitan vessel ferrying the booty (Minor 193). Kenyon’s copy of the Paris edition, like many later editions of the Views, is bound with an enormous fold-out map of Rome and the Campus Martius (Pianta di Roma e del Campo Marzio) originally published in 1788 or 1789 (Hind 87). 

Browse Piranese by volume:

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Tuesday, December 12, 2017

The Khalili Research Centre Image Database

The Khalili Research Centre Image Database
The Khalili Research Centre Image Database contains just over 30,000 images that have been scanned of the slides used for teaching Islamic Art at the University of Oxford since the 1960s.
The database includes slides from important collections including those of Olga Ford, Sylvia Matheson, and Antony Hutt, alongside slides and photographs taken by academics and researchers affiliated to the KRC, Ashmolean Museum, or Faculty of Oriental Studies.

We continue to work on adding images to the database, and improving the metadata for records already within the archive, and we hope that it will prove a valuable resource to both students of Islamic Art and the public in general
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Monday, December 11, 2017

The ACOR Research Library Photographic Archive Project

The ACOR Research Library Photographic Archive Project 
The ACOR Research Library Photographic Archive Project is made possible under a Fiscal Year 2016  American Overseas Research Centers grant from the U.S. Department of Education.

The American Center of Oriental Research (ACOR) in Amman, Jordan, is a non‑profit, 501(c)(3) academic institution dedicated to promoting research and publication in the humanities and social sciences, with a particular focus on issues related to Jordan and the broader Middle East. ACOR exists both to facilitate research by postgraduate researchers and senior scholars and to assist in the training of future specialists who focus on all phases of Jordan’s past and present.

The ACOR Library holds a remarkable photographic archive related to its role in preserving and promoting the country’s heritage. The complete collection, estimated to number more than 100,000 images, provides primary visual documentation of Jordan, including the major archaeological and cultural heritage projects the center has sponsored across the country over the decades. Given its broad range of content and subject matter, the ACOR Library photographic archive has the potential to be a crucial resource for American, international, and Jordanian scholars involved in cultural and natural heritage preservation and management.

As a first step in making this extensive archival collection available to researchers, the ACOR Library has begun to process, digitize, and make fully accessible (and searchable) online a majority of ACOR’s major institutional and donated photographic holdings. By leveraging technology to make these photographs available and freely accessible, the ACOR Library will better equip American, Jordanian, and international researchers and policy makers to monitor and assess the numerous threats facing heritage sites in the Middle East and especially Jordan.

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Monday, December 4, 2017

Syria Photo Guide

Syria Photo Guide
By Daniel Demeter
Syria Photo Guide
Syria has captivated travelers for centuries, inspiring visitors with its rich heritage, fascinating history, diverse culture, vibrant markets, delicious cuisine, stunning landscapes, well-preserved archaeological sites, remarkable monuments, and spectacular religious shrines and places of worship. Foreigners who have had the opportunity to visit Syria tend to agree that its residents are among the most hospitable, warm and kindhearted people anywhere they have traveled. After spending several years exploring the region, I felt a personal obligation to share the beauty of Syria with the world. Compiled from a collection of nearly 30,000 photographs taken between 2006 and 2009, Syria Photo Guide was created to serve as a resource for those interested in learning more about the country’s cultural and historic sites.
Born and raised in Los Angeles, California, the desire to travel and explore surfaced in me from a young age. By age twenty, I had traveled independently to thirty countries throughout Europe, Southeast Asia, the Indian subcontinent and North America. At twenty-three years old, I planned an ambitious journey that was to take me overland from Egypt to China over the course of eighteen months. It was on this trip, in 2003, that I was first introduced to Syria. While I had traveled extensively, nowhere else had I encountered people so welcoming and hospitable. Syria’s incredible diversity, captivating history, and astounding variety of archaeological sites and natural attractions deeply impressed me. I aborted plans to continue traveling overland through Central Asia to China, refocusing my journey on better understanding the Middle East. Having initially planned only a few weeks in the country, I extended my stay to nine months. During this time I immersed myself in Syria’s culture and developed a deep appreciation for the country.
In 2006 I undertook another trip to Syria, determined to get to know the country in even greater depth. Basing myself in Bab Sharqi, Damascus, I lived in the country throughout most of 2006 and 2007. Combining my passion for photography with my interest in Syria’s heritage, I spent much of my time visiting, documenting and photographing Syria’s wide range of archaeological, cultural and natural attractions. I contributed articles about these sites for a local English-language magazine entitled “What’s On”, in addition to teaching English at a local language center. My most recent visit to Syria was from September 2008 through March 2009. I currently reside in San Luis Obispo, California and I am pursuing a degree in cultural anthropology. In addition to continued work on Syria Photo Guide, I have recently had Lens on Syria, a collection of my finest photography of the country, published by Just World Books.
In light of the horrific conflict that has engulfed Syria since 2011, I hope that Syria Photo Guide can provide a reminder of the immense beauty and rich heritage of the country that is gradually being lost through the senseless violence and destruction of war. On a personal level, it has been absolutely devastating to witness the Syria I know and love be destroyed, and the fates of so many kind and generous people I spent time with unknown. This website is dedicated to the Syrian people, to whom I will always be indebted for providing some of the most wonderful years of my life.

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Tuesday, June 27, 2017

AGSL Digital Photo Archive - Asia and Middle East

AGSL Digital Photo Archive - Asia and Middle East
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AGSL Digital Photo Archive - Asia and Middle East presents over 20,000 images from the holdings of the American Geographical Society (AGS) Library. The selection focuses on the countries of Asia and the Middle East. The images come from the collections acquired over many decades by the AGS Library including an extensive photographic print collection. The digital collection is under continuing development. Read more about the collection.
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Thursday, June 1, 2017

Photorientalist: A website dedicated to exhibiting 19th and 20th century photographs of the Middle East and North Africa

Photorientalist: A website dedicated to exhibiting 19th and 20th century photographs of the Middle East and North Africa
Photorientalist.org is a website created by Norbert Schiller to exhibit 19th and 20th century photography from the Middle East and North Africa. The site is not limited to his collection, but open as a venue for other collectors to share their treasures.

Photographic exhibitions will be regularly displayed on the website. These exhibitions are open for contributions from parties who share a similar interest in historic images from the Middle East. 
 
Contributions may be submitted in the form of information or photographs that complement featured themes or topics. All submissions will be appropriately credited. The website’s success depends on valuable contributions by interested parties.

If you want to share photographs that are relevant to exhibitions on Photorientalist.org or have exhibition ideas, please contact me at nschiller@photorientalist.org.
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Friday, April 7, 2017

Bayerisches Hauptstaatsarchiv: Bildsammlung Palästina

Bayerisches Hauptstaatsarchiv: Bildsammlung Palästina
bearbeitet von Dr. Lothar Saupe
Bayerisches Hauptstaatsarchiv
Laufzeit: 1917-1918
Staatswappen Bayern
Fotografien von Palästina, aufgenommen 1917/1918 durch die bayerische Fliegerabteilung 304

Eine Zusammenarbeit zwischen den deutschen Armeen und den Streitkräften des Osmanischen Reiches hatte bereits in den 80er Jahren des 19. Jahrhunderts eingesetzt. Im Ersten Weltkrieg wurde diese Kooperation intensiviert. Nicht nur einzelne Offiziere, sondern umfangreiche deutsche Truppen wurden zur Unterstützung der türkischen Armee in das Osmanische Reich verlegt, das damals neben der heutigen Türkei auch Syrien, den Libanon, den Irak, Palästina, Jordanien und beide Küstenbereiche des heutigen Saudi-Arabien umfasste.
Diese Deutschen kämpften nicht nur an den Dardanellen mit, sondern sie standen auch in Bagdad den Briten gegenüber und waren im heutigen Syrien und Palästina eingesetzt. Zur Unterstützung der osmanisch-türkischen Bodentruppen waren dort deutsche Fliegerabteilungen stationiert. Zuerst kam eine preußische Fliegerabteilung. Bis zum 1. November 1917 wurde auch die bayerische Fliegerabteilung 304b [= bayerisch] dorthin verlagert, die bis September 1918 an den Kämpfen beteiligt war. Abteilungsführer war bis Kriegsende Hauptmann Walz...
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Monday, April 3, 2017

Le Descrizioni di Roma dalla Fine del XIII all'Inizio del XV Secolo: Corpus elettronico delle descrizioni di Roma

Le Descrizioni di Roma dalla Fine del XIII all'Inizio del XV Secolo: Corpus elettronico delle descrizioni di Roma
Grazie alla doppia universalità di cui è depositaria la città di Roma ha costituito nell’Europa medioevale, e in quella di prima età moderna, un unicum. Nella sua natura di capitale del mondo antico e centro propulsore del mondo latino, Roma fu avvertita, anche nei secoli del più profondo Medioevo, quale custode di una civiltà in cui quasi tutta l’Europa riconosceva le proprie radici e che, sebbene scomparsa, era ancora capace di esercitare profonde suggestioni attraverso un’infinità di memorie (monumenta) architettoniche ed artistiche. L’imponenza di questi monumenta, che formavano gran parte della città, faceva sentire il mondo antico come qualcosa di gigantesco ed irripetibile, qualcosa che si poneva al di sopra delle facoltà umane. L’altro polo della Roma medioevale era rappresentato dalla città in cui il Cristianesimo aveva ottenuto la sua definitiva vittoria, facendosi religione universale: anche questa era una vicenda di luoghi, di monumenta e memoriae conservate nei preziosi scrigni costituiti dalle basiliche, dalle chiese, dai santuari, dai cimiteri dei primi cristiani. Naturalmente l’interazione, la contaminazione, la sovrapposizione fra i due poli fu continua: basti citare qui la leggenda dell’apparizione della Madonna a Augusto, che portò alla fondazione dell’Ara Coeli, e la vicenda della statua equestre di Marco Aurelio, considerata quella di Costantino, il primo imperatore cristiano, e perciò gelosamente custodita per tutto il Medioevo nel campo Lateranense...
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