An Account of Discoveries in Lycia

Being a Journal Kept During a Second Excursion in Asia Minor

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ID9359805
AuthorsCharles Fellows (corresponding author)
Year2008
Publication date2008-06-29
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueAccount of Discoveries in Lycia (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9781316136720
OpenAlexW1561561453
ISBN9781316136720
Open LibraryOL34732297M
LanguageEN
Citations received6

The traveller and archaeologist Sir Charles Fellows (1799–1860) made several trips through Asia Minor. This work, first published in 1841, is an account of the second of these journeys, recording his careful observations of the places he visited in 1840. During his first trip in 1838 he had seen the ruins of ancient cities that were hardly known to Europeans at that time, and he soon returned to focus his attention on Lycia. Fellows provides here a lively narrative of his discoveries, along with his own detailed drawings and many inscriptions in ancient Greek. His publications generated significant interest, fuelling the British Museum's desire to acquire antiquities from the region. Fellows was later knighted for his role in these acquisitions, though controversy surrounds their removal. The journal of his first trip, and his later work The Xanthian Marbles (1843), are also reissued in this series

Ancient history · Art · Art history · Excursion · Humanities · Literature · Minor (academic · Narrative · Political science · TRIPS architecture · Archaeological Research and Protection · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classics · Engineering · History · Law · Maritime and Coastal Archaeology

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