The Max von Oppenheim photo collection Online

[First posted in AWOL 6 June 2012, updated 27 November 2020]

The Max von Oppenheim photo collection

Max Freiherr von Oppenheim (1860-1946) was not only a famous explorer but also a well known diplomat and collector of oriental artifacts. As an employee of the German consulate general in Cairo, he observed the Arabian world and excavated Tell Halaf in Syria. In his many expeditions, most taking several years, he explored the region between the Levante and Mesopotamia.

Oppenheim was always accompanied by professional photographers. The Near East and its people as well as its nature and architecture kept him mesmerized for decades. The result was a collection of 13.000 photos that captured the life and culture of a world gone by.

Max von Oppenheim's literary contributions and the photo-collection are kept in the house-archive of the Bankhaus Sal, Oppenheim jr. & Cie. in Cologne. It is owned by the Max Freiherr von Oppenheim Foundation and was established in 1929 by von Oppenheim himself.

Max von Oppenheim's photo-collection is accessible to the greater public by the Arachne database. In order to view images of the Max von Oppenheim photo-collection in a higher resolution, interested persons should contact the house-archive of the Bankhaus Sal. Oppenheim by e-mail to request the necessary rights.

The photo-collection contains 75 albums (show all) and many single photographs. The photo volumes form chronological and spatial units regarding the following topics:

1. Travel through Asian Turkey in 1899	2. Journeys (1911-1939)	3. Excavations in Tell Halaf (1911-1929)	4. Special collections and single pictures (1899-1939)
1.01 Expedition through Asian Turkey in 1899, vol. 1: Beirut-Baalbek-Damascus 1.02 Expedition through Asian Turkey in 1899, vol. 2: Damascus 1.03 Expedition through Asian Turkey in 1899, vol. 3: Tell Nebi Mend – Homs – Hama - Salamia 1.04 Expedition through Asian Turkey in 1899, vol. 4: [Salamia – Aleppo] 1.05 Expedition through Asian Turkey in 1899, vol. 5: Aleppo 1.06 Expedition through Asian Turkey in 1899, vol. 6: [el Bab – Orfa – Waranschahar] 1.07 Expedition through Asian Turkey in 1899, vol. 7: [Waranschahar – Tell Halaf – Diarbakir – Kazan Ali] 1.08 Expedition through Asian Turkey in 1899, vol. 8: Adana - Konia 1.09 Expedition through Asian Turkey in 1899, special edition: Pictures of Syria, Mesopotamia and Anatolia 1.10 Expedition through Asian Turkey in 1899, special edition of secretary Hänichen

MUDIRA: MUnich DIgital Research Archives

[First posted in AWOL 22 May 2013, update 28 October 2020]

MUDIRA: MUnich DIgital Research Archives

MUnich DIgital Research Archives ist ein im Frühjahr 2012 gestartetes Gemeinschaftsprojekt des Instituts für Ägyptologie der LMU München und des Staatlichen Museums Ägyptischer Kunst München (SMÄK), in welchem die umfangreichen Bildbestände beider Institutionen zu Altägypten digitalisiert und zugänglich gemacht werden. In der ersten (auf 2 bis 3 Jahre angelegten) Projektphase werden etwa 30.000 als Kleinbild-Diapositive vorliegende Originalaufnahmen aus Ägypten sowie von Beständen ägyptischer Museen und Sammlungen professionell gescannt und im Rahmen einer durch die IT-Gruppe Geisteswissenschaften (ITG) der LMU erstellten Datenbank online präsentiert. Ziele des Projektes sind die Erleichterung des Zugangs zu den Bildern, die wissenschaftliche Aufbereitung der dazugehörenden Informationen sowie letztendlich der Erhalt der oftmals wissenschaftshistorisch bedeutsamen Abbildungen auf einem zeitgemäßen Speichermedium. Der UNI DIA Verlag hat zudem seine knapp 6.000 Bilder zu Altägypten in digitalisierter Form zur Verfügung gestellt. Diese Bilder sind bereits komplett bearbeitet und abrufbar. In einem zweiten Schritt soll dann die Glasplattensammlung des Münchner Ägyptologischen Instituts digitalisiert und aufbereitet werden.

Princeton University, Research Photographs, Archaeological Archives

 [First posted in AWOL 16 December 2012, updated 9 May 2019]

Princeton University, Research Photographs, Archaeological Archives

The archaeological archives consist of unique photographic and textual documentation generated by over 100 years of expeditions and excavations conducted and sponsored by Princeton University. In addition to the primary corpus of photographs, glass plate and film negatives, drawings, there are supplementary materials such as journals, field notebooks trench reports and other ancillary records. Together these collections form a singular archive manifesting Princeton’s continued participation in and sponsorship of excavations, a tradition that began in 1899 with Howard Crosby Butler’s first expedition to Syria and continues with the excavations at Balis in central Syria.

		Rudolf-Ernst Brünnow and Alfred Von Domaszewski Archive 1897–1898 Photographs of the Roman province of Arabia, including such sites as Amman, Bosra and Petra, to provide illustrations for Die Provincie Arabia published from 1904-1909. Princeton retains drawings, the original glass negatives and an accompanying set of mounted photographs. The collection also holds the complete set of the earliest panoramic photographic documentation of Mshatta’s facade, made by Rudolf-Ernst Brünnow in 1898. View the collection on our Omeka site
		Howard Crosby Butler Archive ∙ Syria American Archaeological Expeditions to Syria 1899-1900 Princeton University Archaeological Expeditions to Syria 1904-1905 and 1909 Photographs of secular buildings, fortifications, churches and monasteries, dating from the first to the seventh centuries A.D., in northern and southern Syria. In addition to the primary corpus of photographs, negatives and drawings, there are journals, diaries and personal sketches. View the collection on our Omeka site
		American Society for the Excavation of Sardis 1910–1914 Photographs and negatives of the excavation of the ancient Lydian capital of Sardis taken during the seasons of 1910 – 1914. The collection includes extensive documentation of the excavation of the Temple of Artemis, as well as photographs of architectural details and other objects found at the site. View the collection on our Omeka site
		Committee for the Excavation of Antioch-On-The-Orontes 1932–1939 Photographs and negatives from the excavation of this late antique site and its objects. The archive, most noted for its extensive documentation of mosaics, also includes inventories, field notebooks, diaries, trench reports, drawings and other ancillary records. View the collection on our Omeka site
		Princeton Archaeological Expedition to Morgantina 1955–1963 and 1966–1967 Photographs, negatives and slides from the excavation of this prehistoric, Early Roman site. The collection also includes an extensive set of architectural drawings, trench notebooks and field books.
		Princeton Archaeological Expedition to Polis 1983–Present Photographs, negatives, and slides, from the excavation of the archaic and classical city of Marion in Cyprus. The collection includes drawings, trench notebooks, field books, and other ancillary records.

Manar Al-Athar منار الآثار Free multi-media resource for the study of the Middle East مصادر مجانية متعددة الوسائط لدراسة حضارات الشرق الأوسط

[First posted in AWOL 17 February 2014, updated 10 April 2019]

Manar Al-Athar منار الآثار: Free multi-media resource for the study of the Middle East 

The Manar al-Athar website, based at the University of Oxford, aims to provide high resolution, searchable images for teaching, research, and publication. These images of archaeological sites, with buildings and art, will cover the areas of the former Roman empire which later came under Islamic rule, such as Syro-Palestine/the Levant, Arabia, Egypt, North Africa and Spain. The chronological range is from Alexander the Great (i.e., from about 300 BC) through, the Islamic period to the present. It is the first website of its kind providing such material labelled jointly in both Arabic and English. We will also be publishing related material, both online and on paper, in English and Arabic.

كلمة ترحيبية

يهدف موقع منار الآثار الإلكتروني، التابع لجامعة أكسفورد، إلى تزويدكم بصور عالية الجودة للغايات العلمية والتعليمية والبحثية؛ إذ تحتوي الصور على نماذج معمارية وفنية لمواقع أثرية كانت ضمن مناطق الإمبراطورية الرومانية السابقة والتي وقعت لاحقاً تحت الحكم الإسلامي: مثل بلاد الشام وبعض أجزاء الجزيرة العربية ومصر وشمال أفريقيا وأسبانيا. تمتد الفترة الزمنية لهذه المواقع الأثرية من أيام الإسكندر المقدوني (حوالي 300 قبل الميلاد) والفترة الإسلامية إلى الوقت الحاضر. يعد موقع منار الآثار الإلكتروني الأول من نوعه الذي يزود روّاده بمواد معنونة باللغتين العربية والإنجليزية معاً. فضلاً عن ذلك سيتم نشر مواد ذات صلة بالموضوع على الموقع الإلكتروني و بشكل ورقي باللغتين الإنجليزية والعربية

Manar al-Athar is Arabic for "Guide to Archaeology" and has been chosen because Manara, in Egypt, refers to both the Lighthouse of Alexandria (the Pharos) and to minarets. This conveys the transition, and often continuity, covered by the chronological range of the material.

All regions - كل المناطق
Regions are appoximate areas, countries, or a focussed group of images, with sites and buildings listed alphabetically.

Algeria الجزائر
Antioch Region - منطقة أنطاكية
Arabia - شبه الجزيرة العربية
Armenia - أرمينيا
Asia Minor - Central وسط آسيا الصغرى
Asia Minor - Eastern شرق آسيا الصغرى
Asia Minor - Western غرب اسيا الصغرى
Balkans - البلقان
Cappadocia كبادوكيا
Egypt - مصر
Georgia جورجيا
Iberian Peninsula
Jordan - الأردن
Lebanon - لبنان
Libya - ليبيا
Morocco المغرب
Sinai - شبه جزيرة سيناء
Syria - سوريا
The Holy Land - الأرض المقدسة
Tunisia - تونس

McKenzie Archive

Colour Slides
(year taken in file name)
شرائح زجاجية بلألوان

Alexandria - الإسكندرية
Egypt (except Alexandria) - مصر
Jordan (except Petra) الأردن
Petra البتراء

Black and white photographs
أسود وأبيض

Alexandria - الإسكندرية
Egypt (except Alexandria) - مصر
Greece - اليونان
Italy - إيطاليا
Jordan (except Petra) - الأردن
Lebanon - لبنان
Petra - البتراء (taken in 1981–86)
South of France - جنوب فرنسا
Western Asia Minor - غرب اسيا الصغرى

For credit line and conditions of use, see Copyright.

Non-Professional Archaeological Photographs-project

Non-Professional Archaeological Photographs-project

The Non-Professional Archaeological Photographs project has the aim to preserve non-professional documentation of archaeological campaigns – prior to the 1980s – to the future and make it accessible to the public via digital archives. Furthermore, the project pleads for an international collaboration between archaeological institutions in order to connect these digital archives and bring them under the attention of the public by the use of this website.

The term ‘non-professional’ refers to records made by visitors or participants of excavations who were not part of the trained staff, but who assisted as part of their continuing education or out of interest, for instance students, volunteers, reporters or sponsors. Secondly, this category of documentation includes also the private photos, slides or films made at the excavation by the archaeological staff.

• Project
• Participants
• Sites
• Archives
• Publications

These digital photo archives are furnished by the participating institutions. By selecting an archive, one can view and admire photographs made by ‘non-professionals’ in the past. If there are any queries, remarks or suggestions, please do not hesitate to contact the project organisation.

Bilddatenbank des Gustaf-Dalman-Institutes

Collections for the study of the country of Palestine of the Gustaf-Dalman Institute

The theological faculty of the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University in Greifswald harbours a certainly internationally almost unique collection of highest scientific interest and standard. The collection is owed to the encyclopaedic and universally scientifically oriented research activities of Gustaf Dalmans (1855 – 1941), who, through facts and pictures, gathered and documented everything that accounted for the land of the Bible in his opinion, especially in the time before World War I, when Palestine still possessed its agrarian character. Today, the collection is located in the Gustaf-Dalman Institute. It was founded in 1920, and carries his name. As first director of the German Protestant Institute for Antique Sciences of the Holy Land, which opened in 1902 in Jerusalem, and up until 1914, he regularly conducted lectures for young theologists from Germany, meanwhile studying the Land of Palestine and the life of its inhabitants. In 1917, Dalman was summoned back to Greifswald, and could bring a little part of his amazing collection with him.

Besides a wide-ranged library concerning the study of the Land of Palestine, the history, the religion and the culture of the Jewish people, the collection includes almost 15.000 glass sheet pictures and photographs as well as stone probes, a collection of woods and ceramics, products for the processing of cereals, archaeological findings, relief maps and clothes. Moreover, the collection also includes several house and acre tools, partly as models, some of them built by Gustaf Dalman himself, and a herbarium including around 2.000 specimens. This is only a small and yet quite representative part of all the elements that Gustaf Dalmans held in his collections in Jerusalem.

What ethnologists, archaeologists, geographs, botanists and mineralogists ever gather for themselves and subject-specifically is assembled here to represent a universal picture. It provides a unique view on the country of Palestine at the beginning of the 20th century. Worldwide scientists benefit from this collection. 

About the project

• Academic Art Collection
• Anatomical Collections
• Research collection of archaeology
• Botanic Collections
• Gynaecological and obstetrical collection
• Geological Collection
• Caspar-David-Friedrich-Institut
• Gustaf-Dalman-Collection
• Historical map collection of the geography and geology
• Medical and historical collection
• Coin collection
• Pathological collection
• Collection of computation
• Collection of prehistoric antiquities
• Victor-Schultze collection
• Zoological collections

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Catalog of Robert McCabe's permanent exhibition at the Consulate General of Greece in Boston

Catalog of Robert McCabe's permanent exhibition at the Consulate General of Greece in Boston 

 

Published on May 19, 2018  

Photographs of Greece by American Photographer Robert McCabe displayed permanently at the Consulate General of Greece in Boston

Pompeii in pictures

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

Pompeii in pictures

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.

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	Russian
ポンペイ遺跡ガイド	Japanese
龐貝指南	Chinese
دليل بومبيي	Arabic

HEIR: The Historic Environment Image Resource

HEIR: The Historic Environment Image Resource

HEIR, the Historic Environment Image Resource, contains digitised historic photographic images from all over the world dating from the late nineteenth century onwards. HEIR’s core images come from lantern slide and glass plate negatives held in college, library, museum and departmental collections within the University of Oxford. New resources are being added all the time, including collections from outside the University.

HEIR’s mission is to keyword the images and rephotograph them in their modern settings so they can be used by researchers from a wide variety of disciplines to track changes to sites, monuments, landscapes and societies over time. You can find out more about HEIR here.

You can help to keyword and discuss the images through HEIRtagger. Rephotograph images with HEIRrephoto and contribute to this valuable resource. Search this database by keyword to find images.

For Terms and Conditions visit here.

HEIR is funded by The Reva and David Logan Foundation and the John Fell Fund at the University of Oxford.

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