Rock-cut dwellings at Matchan (modern Göreme)

Department Archive
Collection BSA SPHS Image Collection
Reference No. BSA SPHS 01/1742.4354
Level Item
Description Film negative, approximately half plate size, an original negative.
Dimensions 14 x 8.5 cm
Place Matchan
Cappadocia
Dates 1911
Donor/Creator Halliday, Sir William Reginald
Project Greek Dialects in Asia Minor 1909-1914
Scope and Content Part of a collection of images from Halliday's travel to Asia Minior in 1911 with Dawkins. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Matchan: Rock cut dwellings".
Notes Date based on Halliday's travels in Asia Minor with Dawkins who was researching Greek dialects in Asia Minor, see BSA 17:286 and Dawkin's 1916 book, Modern Greek in Asia Minor.
Reference 1921. Discovery: a monthly popular journal of knowledge. 11 (18): front cover.