HISTORIC PHOTOGRAPH COLLECTIONS
Palmyra
Historic photographs of Aleppo, Damascus and cities across Syria. Location and date evidence is assessed for each record.Photographs are grouped at their city or area centre. Purple markers indicate approximate locations.
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Catalogue date · 1920Palmyra. Tower tomb of Elahbel. Interior showing ceiling, pilasters and grave niches ; lower section showing crypt and carved busts
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Catalogue date · 1898–1946Palmyra. Section of outer colonnade temple enclosure
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Catalogue date · 1929Supplementary subjects of Palmyra. Engaged columns in the modern mud houses
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Catalogue date · 1898–1946Palmyra
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Catalogue date · 1898–1946Palmyra
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Catalogue date · 1920Palmyra. Door of the Tomb of Dionysios. Showing the elaborate entrance with swinging stone doors
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Catalogue date · 1920Palmyra. Tomb of the three brothers. The central burial chamber covered with frescoes representing the Rape of Ganymede
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Catalogue date · 1900Palmyra (Tadmor). Granite monolith pillars of unknown temple ; looking along colonnade towards Turkish castle
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Catalogue date · 1929Supplementary subjects of Palmyra. Fragment of Latin inscription on Homs-Palmyra track (III cent. A.D.)
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Catalogue date · 1898–1946Palmyra
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Catalogue date · 1898–1946Palmyra
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Catalogue date · 1920Palmyra. Tomb of the three brothers. Right hand chamber showing sarcophagi, loculi and portrait and group carvings
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Catalogue date · 1900Palmyra (Tadmor). One of side arches of triumphal arch ; full view of triumphal arch, showing colonnade
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Catalogue date · 1900Palmyra (Tadmor). Two of the tower-tombs ; ancient socket-hinged stone door in native hut
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Catalogue date · 1900Palmyra (Tadmor). General view of the grand colonnade ; central archway of grand colonnade
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Catalogue date · 1920Palmyra. Temple of Baal. Carved lintel above the main entrance
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Catalogue date · 1929Supplementary subjects of Palmyra. A large pile of overturned "sarcophagi"
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Catalogue date · 1898–1946Palmyra
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Catalogue date · 1920Palmyra. Temple of Baal. The temenos or outer walls showing the leaning south section
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Catalogue date · 1920Palmyra. Temple of Baal. Near view showing pillars and the cella wall
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Catalogue date · 1929Palmyra, May 1929
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Catalogue date · 1900Palmyra (Tadmor). West half of colonnade, showing part of central arch
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Catalogue date · 1920Palmyra. Temple of Baal. Interior. Ceiling in the southern cloister
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Catalogue date · 1920Palmyra. Desert. Qasr el Heir. Elaborately carved gate lintel
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