Church of Saint John at Imera

Department Archive
Collection BSA SPHS Image Collection
Reference No. BSA SPHS 01/7351.C2402
Level Item
Description Film negative, approximately half plate size, an original negative.
Dimensions 13.5 x 9 cm
Place Monastery of Saint John at Imera
East Black Sea Region
Dates 1914
Donor/Creator Dawkins, Mr Richard McGillivray
Project Greek Dialects in Asia Minor 1909-1914
Scope and Content Part of a collection of images from Dawkins' travel to Pontus to investigate dialects in 1914. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Monastery of S John at Imera, near Trebizond".
Notes Date based on Dawkins' travel to the Pontus to investigate Greek dialects. His investigations were never completed due to the outbreak of WWI - see Mackridge BSA 85 (1990) p. 206. Also see B. Olsen (pp. 105-120) in Shankland, D. Archaeology, Anthropology and Heritage in the Balkans and Anatolia. 2004, Istanbul: Isis Press. SPHS Lectures & Slide Sets: B.I. and I.A. Lawrence, ca. 1933. The Expedition of Cyrus & Xenophon's Anabasis. Slide number 43.
Reference 1924 JHS 44: 10th accession to 1913 slide catalogue. xlix.SPHS C.2402. Link to article