Aslantaş, Göynüş Valley: Lion tomb

Department Archive
Collection BSA SPHS Image Collection
Reference No. BSA SPHS 01/1317.3366
Level Item
Description Glass negative, half plate size, a copy negative.
Condition Faded and slightly out of focus in foreground.
Dimensions 12.5 x 10 cm
Place Göynüş Valley
Dates 1891
Donor/Creator Munro, Mr John Arthur Ruskin
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 register reads: "Ayazeen: lion tomb".
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.