Kromni (modern Kurum): Crypto Christian church

Department Archive
Collection BSA SPHS Image Collection
Reference No. BSA SPHS 01/7361.C2412
Level Item
Description Film negative, approximately half plate size, an original negative.
Dimensions 14 x 9 cm
Place Kromni
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: "Kromni (Pontos) Crypto Christian church".
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.2412. Link to article