Sumela Monastery, general view

Department Archive
Collection BSA SPHS Image Collection
Reference No. BSA SPHS 01/7355.C2406
Level Item
Description Film negative, approximately half plate size, an original negative.
Dimensions 14 x 9 cm
Place Sumela Monastery
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 Soumela, general view, 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.
Reference 1924 JHS 44: 10th accession to 1913 slide catalogue. l.SPHS C.2406. Link to article