Marmara (Island): Palatia [Saraylar], marble quarry

Department Archive
Collection BSA SPHS Image Collection
Reference No. BSA SPHS 01/4663.9609
Level Item
Description Film negative, approximately quarter plate size, an original negative.
Condition Negative very faded.
Dimensions 10.5 x 8 cm
Place Marmara Marble Quarries
Dates 1907
Donor/Creator Hasluck, Dr Frederick William
Project Cyzicus, Mysia and Bithynia
Scope and Content Part of a group of images from Hasluck's travels to the Marmara Islands in 1907. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Marmara Islands (Proconnesus Marmara) Palatia, marble quarry. (JHS XXIX. 13)"
Notes Dates to the travels of Hasluck to the Marmara Islands in 1907: F. W. Hasluck, 'The Marmara Islands' JHS Vol. 29 (1909), pp. 6-18. The explorations of the neighbouring islands was a follow-on from the Cyzicus survey conducted by Hasluck of the surroundings of the ancient city.
Reference 1909. JHS 29: 13, fig. 2. Link to article