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Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Photograph of Serope Gurdjian, a sightseeing companion of William Lewis Sachtleben and Thomas Gaskell Allen, in the Kerameikos area of Athens on top of a recently excavated Roman sarcophagus near the Street of Tombs in Athens deciphering the inscription. A bicycle is parked against a mound in front of the tomb and a low stone wall is in visible the background. Serope Armenag Gurdjian was an Armenian from Turkey who became a naturalized U.S. citizen and earned a college degree from Bowdoin College in 1877. Having been detained in Istanbul in October 1890 on suspicion of participating in a revolutionary committee, he was released based on his U.S. citizenship and then traveled to Athens, where he met and befriended William Sachtleben and Thomas Allen. Photograph taken during William Lewis Sachtleben's stay in Athens before embarking on a bicycle journey across Asia with Thomas Gaskell Allen Jr. Text from negative sleeve: No. 37. Jan. 15, 1891. An old Roman tomb near the Street of Tombs recently excavated. Gurdjian deciphering the inscription.
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1841_0006 ark:/21198/zz002hfdr9
Subject
Sarcophagi, Roman--Greece--Athens Kerameikos (Athens, Greece) Bicycle touring--Greece Cemeteries--Greek--Greece--Athens Gurdjian, Serope A. (Serope Armenag), b. 1847
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