Thomas Allen next to the Serpent Column and in front of the Obelisk of Thutmose III at the Hippodrome, Istanbul, 1891

Item Overview

Title

Thomas Allen next to the Serpent Column and in front of the Obelisk of Thutmose III at the Hippodrome, Istanbul, 1891

Photographer

Sachtleben, William Lewis

Date Created

March 21, 1891

Date

1891-03 21

Collection

Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841

Notes

Description

View of Thomas Allen standing next to his Humber bicycle in the Hippodrome of Constantinople (Sultanahmet Meydanı) as 2 other men walk by. He is standing next to a circular iron fence within which is the Serpent Column (or Delphi Tripod or Plataean Tripod), an ancient bronze column originally part of an ancient Greek Sacrificial tripod in Delphi. A wall and minaret of the Sultanahmet Camii (Mosque of Sultan Ahmet I) is on the right and in the background on the left is the Egyptian Obelisk of Thutmose III (Thutmosis), sometimes called the Obelisk of Theodosius.
Photograph taken during William Lewis Sachtleben's bicycle journey across Asia with Thomas Gaskell Allen Jr.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: No. 17. March 21, 1891. The serpent column, or Column of Pharoah, King of Egypt. Old Roman remains in Stanbul.
Handwritten on negative: 105 / 20

Physical Description

Extent

1 photographic negative

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

black-and-white photographs
cellulose nitrate film

Names

Allen, Thomas Gaskell
Hippodrome of Constantinople (Istanbul, Turkey)
Sultanahmet Camii (Istanbul, Turkey)
Obelisk of Thutmose III (Istanbul, Turkey)

Location

Turkey--Istanbul

Longitude

41.005504

Latitude

28.97496

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Columns -- Turkey -- Istanbul
Mosques -- Greece -- Athens
Obelisks -- Turkey -- Istanbul
Bicycle touring -- Asia