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Rusicade: théâtre romain, Philippeville
90.R.1
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Contributing Institution:
Special Collections
Title: Rusicade: théâtre romain, Philippeville
Creator:
Bertrand, Louis, 1866-1941
Creator:
Ranoux, Henri
Identifier/Call Number: 90.R.1
Physical Description:
1 album(s)
(30 photographic prints)
Date: 1895
Abstract: Album of cyanotypes and text recording archaeological investigations at the
ancient site of Rusicada, the present day port city of Skikda, Algeria.
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Language of Material: Collection material is in French.
Arranged in a single series: Series I. Rusicade: théâtre romain, Philippeville, 1895.
Henri Ranoux was an architect and archaeologist. The author of the text, Louis Bertrand, was the head of the Philippeville
Museum at the site of
Rusicada (now known as Skikda) in Algeria, and professor at the Lycée in Bugeaud, Algeria from 1891-1900. He wrote numerous
travel books, histories, and
novels.
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Acquired in 1990.
Rusicade : théâtre romain, Philippeville, 1895, Getty Research Institute, Research Library, Accession no. 90.R.1
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa90r1
Processed and cataloged by Beth Ann Guynn; finding aid encoded by Holly Larson with grant funding from the Council on Library
and Information Resources
(CLIR).
Scope and Content of Collection
The album of 30 cyanotypes records archaeological investigations at the ancient site of Rusicada (Skikda), once an important
port in the Roman period.
The site was entirely built over during the French occupation of Algeria and its monuments are only known in several nineteenth
century drawings.
Objects from the site were first displayed in an open-air museum and later in the Philippeville Museum. The museum was destroyed
between 1954 and 1962
and the objects housed there were removed for safekeeping. The album depicts many of the objects not illustrated in the 1896
museum catalog, showing
them as they were displayed in the earlier open-air museum.
Included are views of the architectural remains, with a plan of the Roman theater, and the archaeological finds, consisting
mainly of sculpture,
ceramics, and a mosaic, all of which were displayed in the open-air museum near the theater. Several objects representing
the cult of Mithras are
represented.
The album is bound in red cloth with "Album" stamped in gilt on front cover. Text consists of captions for the photographs,
with detailed measurements
given for the objects depicted. Titles of the individual images are from the captions. Measurements and other notes are not
transcribed.
The collection was digitized by the repository and the images are available online:
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/90r1
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Rome — Antiquities
Cyanotypes -- Algeria -- 19th century
Mithraism
Skikdah (Algeria) -- Antiquities, Roman
Excavations (Archaeology) -- Algeria -- Skikda
Theaters -- Algeria -- Skikda
Architecture, Roman -- Algeria -- Skikda
Art, Roman -- Algeria -- Skikda