Funerary monuments - TRAVELLERS' VIEWS - Places – Monuments – People Southeastern Europe – Eastern Mediterranean – Greece – Asia Minor

Composition: The Temple of Poseidon in Sounio together with the Monument of Philopappus in Athens.

Muslim cemetery in the confluence of Karamenders (anc. Scamander) and Simoes rivers.

Ottoman cemetery. Women offering libation.

Views of the mausoleums of Sultans Murat III, Selim I, Mehmet III and Mustafa I in Hagia Sophia in Istanbul.

Fig. 1. View of the Hellenistic, theater of Fethiye (anc. Telmessos) in Asia Minor. Fig. 2. Lycian tombs and sarcophagi at Fethiye (anc. Telmessos) in Asia Minor.

Lycian sarcophagi and mausoleums at Fethiye (anc. Telmessos) in Asia Minor.

Lycian sarcophag at Fethiye (anc. Telmessos) in Asia Minor.

Carved tombs in Fethiye (anc. Telmessos) in Asia Minor.

Fig. 1. Rock-cut mausoleum in Fethiye (anc. Telmessos) in Asia Minor. Fig. 2. Lanscape at the Gulf of Saint Paul, in Lindos (Rhodes).

The Sphinx in front of the Pyramid of Chephren in Giza, Egypt.

The Muslim cemetery of Pera (Beyoğlu). The cemetery started off today's Taxim square, and eventually reached the Bosporus through the neighborhoods of Gümüşsuyu and Fındıklı.

The alleged tomb of David in Jerusalem. Absalom's tomb in Kidron Valley, jerusalem. The Pool of Siloam.

Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem. The Tombs of the Kings in Jerusalem.

View of Hebron. In the background the monument in Herodian architecture which houses the Cave of the Patriarchs, where Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Rebecca, Jacob and Leah are buried. The Valley of Jericho. View of the Dead Sea.

The building, which, according to tradition, houses Rachel's Tomb, and which is on the road from Jerusalem to Bethlehem.

Muslim cemetery in the city of Essaouira or Mogador in Morocco.

The Tholos tomb of Mycenae (Treasury of Atreus).

The putative Tomb of Themistocles in Piraeus.

View of the Temple of Ianus, erroneously called Temple of Homer, at Kadifekale (anc. Pagos), in Izmir.

Imaginary representation of the tomb of Diogenes the Cynic in Ancient Corinth.

View of the front of the roman tomb of Zakynthos, erroneously perceived as the Tomb of Cicero. Vases from the monument.

View of the White Tower and the eastern wall of Thessaloniki from the Muslim cemetery. From: Walter Bouchier Devereux, Views on the Shores of the Mediterranean, London, 1847.

Chapel of the tombs of Godefroy de Bouillon and Baldwin I of Jerusalem.

The tomb of Adam underneath Calvary in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre (Chapel of Adam). According to Jewish and Christian tradition, Shem and Melchizedek guided by angels travelled to the spot whre Noah's Ark was, took Adam's body and, guided by angels, buried it at the site of Calvary in Jerusalem.