Maden: Euphrates near Keban Madeni

Department Archive
Collection BSA SPHS Image Collection
Reference No. BSA SPHS 01/2214.5807
Level Item
Description Glass negative, quarter plate size, a copy negative.
Condition Black ink used to mask impurities in the sky and a rounded edge mask applied, possibly for the production of a lantern slide.
Dimensions 10.5 x 8 cm
Place Kedban Madeni
Dates 1894
Donor/Creator Munro, Mr John Arthur Ruskin
Hogarth, Mr David George
Yorke, Mr Vincent W.
Project Hogarth Travels 1891-1904
Scope and Content Part of a group of images from the 1894 travels of Hogarth, Yorke and others up the Euphrates as described in Hogarth's 1896 book, A Wandering Scholar in the Levant. The original description in the SPHS catalogue reads: "Asia Minor: Euphrates near Keban Maden".
Notes Date attributed to the year in which Hogarth, Yorke and others to explore the Euphrates - see A Wandering Scholar in the Levant 1896 and York in 1896 Geographical Journal 8(5): 453-472. SPHS Register lists both Hogarth and Munro as donors, although it is clear that this was taken on the 1894 expedition up the Euphrates when Hogarth was with Yorke and others, not Munro. The image appears in SPHS Slide Set by B.I. and I.A. Lawrence (ca. 1933) The Expedition of Cyrus & Xenophon's Anabasis, slide number 32.
Reference 1896. Geographical Journal. 8 (5): 455.
1900 JHS 20: Catalogue of Slides. lvii.Gc 49. Link to article
1904 JHS 24: Catalogue of Slides. xci.SPHS 5807. Link to article
1913 JHS 33: Catalogue of Slides. 15.SPHS 5807. Link to article