Rome / Chapel of the Seven Sleepers - details, with fresco paintings. This chapel is within the walls of Rome, and near the tomb of the Scipios. It had been long forgotten, until it was re-discovered in 1875 by the proprietor, being then a house for firewood. The frescoes are believed to be of the eighth century, but they are in a very bad state. / Cardboard
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Record Details
- Object Identifier
- 2000.01.3389
- Other Number
- 3389
- Type of Number
- Catalogue Number
- Object Name
- Chapel of the Seven Sleepers - details, with fresco paintings. This chapel is within the walls of Rome, and near the tomb of the Scipios. It had been long forgotten, until it was re-discovered in 1875 by the proprietor, being then a house for firewood. The frescoes are believed to be of the eighth century, but they are in a very bad state.
- Collections
- Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
- Object Type
- Photographs and prints
- Materials
- Cardboard
- Inscribed
- no
- Publisher
- John Henry Parker
- Verbatim Date
- ca 1870-1880 AD
- Verbatim Provenance
- Italy
- Verbatim Site
- Rome
- Countermark
- no
- Condition Notes
- 3
- Publication Title
- A Catalogue of 3300 Photographs of Antiquities in Rome and Italy
- Publication Year
- 0000
- Type Category
- Photograph
Technical Details
- Record
- 2000.01.3389
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"Rome; Chapel of the Seven Sleepers - details, with fresco paintings. This chapel is within the walls of Rome, and near the tomb of the Scipios. It had been long forgotten, until it was re-discovered in 1875 by the proprietor, being then a house for firewood. The frescoes are believed to be of the eighth century, but they are in a very bad state.; Cardboard." In the digital collection Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-2000.01.3389/2000_01_3389. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 02, 2024.