Chabinas Bridge: Roman bridge near Kiakhta (modern Kâhta)

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Collection BSA SPHS Image Collection
Reference No. BSA SPHS 01/2198.5780
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 Cendere Brıdge
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: Roman bridge near Kiakhta".
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 Yorke in 1896 Geographical Journal 8(5): 453-472. SPHS Register lists both Hogarth and Munro as donors, but the photograph is attributed to Yorke in Hogarth's 1896 book. This image appears in the SPHS Slide Set by D.G. Hogarth (ca. 1923) Alexander the Great, slide number 29.
Reference Hogarth, D.G. 1896. A wandering scholar in the Levant. facing 116.
1896. Geographical Journal. 8 (4): 323.
1904 JHS 24: Catalogue of Slides. xci.SPHS 5780. Link to article
1913 JHS 33: Catalogue of Slides. 15.SPHS 5780. Link to article
1913 JHS 33: Catalogue of Slides. 80.SPHS 5780. Link to article
1921 JHS 41: Slide Sets. lxiv.SPHS 5780. Link to article