347: Armorial Bearings and Inscriptions

Department Archive
Collection 1936 Exhibition Collection
Reference No. 1936/2/2/40
Level Item
Dimensions 33.3 x 76.3 cm
Scope and Content Card base with eight black and white illustrations attached, seven in ink and one in pencil, labelled with pasted letters a-h. The number 347 is pasted in the lower left corner. "F.W.Hasluck" is written in ink in the lower left corner. Beside each image is a later annotation in pencil giving a bibliographic reference. The original description in the catalogue reads: "Armorial bearings and inscriptions: a. Chios: armorial bearings: Giustiniani, City of Genoa [erased], de Marchi. b. Amastra: Genoese arms. c. Smyrna: Arms: de Heridia, the Order of St. John (the cross defaced by Turks), the Papacy, d'Allemagna. d. Chios: Inscription, in Genoese dialect (as it applied to sailors and harbour-loafers), prohibiting the throwing of filth or ballast into the harbour. e. Smyrna: Arms; Papacy, d'Allemagna. f. Chios. Inscription respecting the ownership of a chapel by Genoese residents. g, h. Aenos; arms of the Gattelusi."
Notes In the Exhibition Catalogue this is under the subheading "The Genoese in the Levant"