Arslantepe: Hittite relief near Melitene, Malatya now in Istanbul Archaeological Museums

Department Archive
Collection BSA SPHS Image Collection
Reference No. BSA SPHS 01/2195.5768
Level Item
Description Glass negative, quarter plate size, a copy negative.
Condition Tape masks the edges of the image.
Dimensions 10.5 x 8 cm
Place Arsantepe
Istanbul Archaeological Museum
Dates 1891
Donor/Creator Munro, Mr John Arthur Ruskin
Hogarth, Mr David George
Project Hogarth Travels 1891-1904
Scope and Content Part of a group of images from the 1891 travels of Hogarth and Munro in Anatolia as described in Hogarth's 1896 book, A Wandering Scholar in the Levant. The original description in the SPHS catalogue reads: "Asia Minor: Hittite monuments. relief fr. Arslan Tepe nr. Melitene (in Constantinople)".
Notes Date attributed to the year in which Hogarth and Munro explored parts of Anatolia - see A Wandering Scholar in the Levant (1896) and 'Modern and Ancient Roads in Eastern Asia Minor'. Supplementary Papers of the Royal Geographical Society 3(5), 1893.
Reference 1896. Geographical Journal. 8 (4): 327.
1900 JHS 20: Catalogue of Slides. lviii.Gc 8. Link to article
1904 JHS 24: Catalogue of Slides. xci.SPHS 5768. Link to article
1913 JHS 33: Catalogue of Slides. 20.SPHS 5768. Link to article