[Theseum, Athens]
Negative
[Theseum, Athens]
From Group of negatives organized by the photographer, entitled "Athens"
21 October 1851
Calotype
Image (Untrimmed): 6 7/8 × 9 in. (17.5 × 22.8 cm)
Gift of Alden Scott Boyer
1981.1683.0179
Inscriptions Inscribed in brown ink on verso, TC: Temple of Theseus \ Athens Octr. 21st 1851 \ length 112 ft size of Columns at base 10 ft 6 at base it was built by Cimon son of \ Miltiades as a Mausoleum for the Body of Theseus which was brought from \ the Isle of Scyros, 50 years before the building of Parthenon 415 before Christ
