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Mosque close to Livadeia.

Turkish horsemen.

The Plains of Olympia.

General view of Athens from Hadrian's Aqueduct (Dexameni) in Athens.

Street in Athens. In the background the Gate of Athena Archegetis (mod. Pazaroporta).

South view of the Temple of Artemis Agrotera in Agrae (Panagia stin Petra) in Athens. The figures represent the Vaiwode, or Turkish Governor of Athens, with some of its attendants on a hunting party.

The Horologion of Andronikos Kyrristos (Tower of the Winds) in Athens, with the Acropolis in the background. Seikh Mustafa, chief of the order of Whirling Dervishes, who used the monument as their tekije (dervish lodge), is standing at the entrance of the monument, leaning on a staff, with his back turned. In the foreground, a woman from an affluent family is promenading with her daughters and maidservant.

The library of Hadrian seen from the house of Nikolaos Logothetis, consul of Britain in Athens. In the foreground, the soap mills. An Ottoman aga receiving a visitor; an Albanian groom.

Coins of Athens. The sarcophagus of Boutos, priest of Athena and Poseidon, discovered in Erechtheion. Altar of Demeter and Persephone dedicated by Phavios, torch-bearer at the Eleusinian mysteries.

Northeast view of the Erechtheion.

View of the Erechtheion. Workmen excavating to reveal the base of the prostasis underneath the Caryatids. Ottoman official Dizdar Aǧa is leaning on his son-in-law's shoulder while two other Ottomans are supervising the excavations in order to keep him informed and to ensure that the British are not carrying away the archaeological findings. On the foreground a man, probably James Stuart, drawing the monument.

View of the Propylaea of the Acropolis from the Temple of Athena Nike.

Ottoman cavalry during the Siege of Rhodes.

View of the temple of Hephaestus in Athens. In the foreground, Arvanite peasants threshing corn under the supervision of a Muslim servant who is escorting his master's son. On the left, Arvanites in provisional hut (kalyvi).

The temple of Apollo in Ancient Corinth. In the foreground two men on horseback and two women promenading. A small party of card players.

The Propylaea from the west. The Ottoman commander of the city garrison (Disdar aga), with a dervish. On the right, a Greek who is held prisoner.

The gate of Saint Catherine at the hospice of Saint Catherine in the medieval town of Rhodes.

The gate of Saint Catherine in the inn of St. Catherine in the medieval town of Rhodes.

View of the interior of D'Amboise Gate in the medieval city of Rhodes.

The fortifications of the city of Rhodes with the Muslim cemetery seen from the northwest. Turkish women pray and give offerings to a tomb.

The fortifications of the city of Rhodes and the Muslim cemetery seen from the southwest.

View of the interior of the Grand Master's Palace in the Medieval City of Rhodes.

The tomb of Grand Master Robert de Julliac in the Franciscan church which was converted into a mosque, adjacent to the public baths of Rhodes (Yeni Hamam). Muslim people preparing to pray at the mosque.