William Sachtleben at the Stoa of the Giants in the Agora, Athens, 1891

Item Overview

Title

William Sachtleben at the Stoa of the Giants in the Agora, Athens, 1891

Photographer

Sachtleben, William Lewis

Date Created

January 28, 1891

Date

1891-01-28

Collection

Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841

Notes

Description

Photograph of William Lewis Sachtleben at the Stoa of the Giants in the Agora in Athens. Sachtleben stands with his bicycle next to a colossal statue on a pedestal. Another unidentified man stands on the left. A high stone wall and two houses are visible in the background.
The center of the Agora was open until a theater was build there, called the Odeion of Agrippa. It was destroyed by fire in A.D. 267 and in about A.D. 400 the Stoa of the Giants (also known at the Palace of the Giants or the Gymnasium) was built using the colossal Giant and Triton statues from the debris of the Odeion of Agrippa on its north side.
Photograph taken during William Lewis Sachtleben's stay in Athens before embarking on a bicycle journey across Asia with Thomas Gaskell Allen Jr.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: No. 5. Jan. 28, 1891. Another statue in the Stoa of the Giants. One of the so-called Atlantis.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photographic negative

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
black-and-white photographs

Location

Greece--Athens

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Bicycle touring -- Greece
Agora (Athens, Greece)