Rock-cut dwellings at Matchan (modern Göreme)

Department Archive
Collection BSA SPHS Image Collection
Reference No. BSA SPHS 01/1740.4352
Level Item
Description Film negative, approximately half plate size, an original negative.
Dimensions 14.5 x 9 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 1912 JHS 32: 8th accession to 1904 slide catalogue. lxxvii.SPHS 4352. Link to article
1913 JHS 33: Catalogue of Slides. 21.SPHS 4352. Link to article