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The Frankish Tower on the Acropolis, Athens: The Photographs of William J. Stillman1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 September 2013

Peter Lock
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Abstract

The photographs taken in 1869 by William J. Stillman, in the Alma-Tadema collection in the Library of the University of Birmingham, give detailed evidence for the form of the tower, enlarging the discussion of it by the author in BSA 81.

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Research Article
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Annual of the British School at Athens , Volume 82 , November 1987 , pp. 131 - 133
Copyright
Copyright © The Council, British School at Athens 1987

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References

2 Best seen in Tsigakou, Fani-Maria, The Rediscovery of Greece (London 1981) 124–5.Google Scholar

3 Illustrations collected in Gregorovius, Ferdinand, Geschichte der Stadt Athen im Mittelalter (1889, reprinted Munich, 1980) 520, 545, 546.Google Scholar The photograph is in Travlos, John, ‘Πολεοδομιϰή ἐξελίξις’, EIK 108.Google Scholar

4 Sources summarized and listed in Miller, William, The Latins in the Levant (London 1908) 402.Google Scholar

5 Ibid.

6 Lock, art. cit.

7 Travlos op. cit. EIK 107, cf. the plan, EIK 106. Ippolito Caffi, The Propylaea, 1843, reproduced in Tsigakou, op. cit. 124.

8 For a listing and analysis of the towers of central Greece see Lock, art. cit., in which the Markopoulo tower was not included through an oversight. It is hoped that the comments contained in this paper go some way to remedy this. I would like to thank Professor Tomlinson for his invaluable observations on the relative floor-levels of the Propylaia and Nike bastion.

9 Miller, op. cit. 402; Gregorovius, op. cit. 344; Μουσταϰη, Β. ed. Μακρυγαννης το λιονταρι της Ρουμελης (Athens 1979) 101.Google Scholar

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12 Μουσταϰη (ed.) op. cit. 101.

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