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The Frankish Tower on the Acropolis, Athens: The Photographs of William J. Stillman1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 September 2013

Abstract

The photographs taken in 1869 by William J. Stillman, in the Alma-Tadema collection in the Library of the University of Birmingham, give detailed evidence for the form of the tower, enlarging the discussion of it by the author in BSA 81.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Council, British School at Athens 1987

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8 For a listing and analysis of the towers of central Greece see Lock, art. cit., in which the Markopoulo tower was not included through an oversight. It is hoped that the comments contained in this paper go some way to remedy this. I would like to thank Professor Tomlinson for his invaluable observations on the relative floor-levels of the Propylaia and Nike bastion.

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