William Sachtleben at the Temple of Hephaestus, Athens, 1891

Item Overview

Title

William Sachtleben at the Temple of Hephaestus, Athens, 1891

Photographer

Sachtleben, William Lewis

Date Created

February 26, 1891

Date

1891-02-26

Collection

Sachtleben (William Lewis) Papers. Collection 1841

Notes

Description

View of William Sachtleben at the Temple of Hephaestus with his bicycle. The Hephaisteion is a Greek Doric peripteral temple located in the Agora of Athens on Agoraios Kolonos Hill.
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. 26. Feb. 26, 1891. The temple of Theseus as it has been called for years. The name now given to it by Dr. [Wilhelm] Dörpfeld […] Temple of Haephestus. So long has it been known by the former name that the new name is known only to students.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photographic negative

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
black-and-white photographs

Names

Sachtleben, William Lewis
Hephaisteion (Athens, Greece)

Location

Greece--Athens

Longitude

37.975411

Latitude

23.720984

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Greek temples -- Greece -- Athens
Agoraios Kolonos Hill (Greece)
Bicycle touring -- Greece
Agora (Athens, Greece)