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CollectionGB 0231 University of Aberdeen, Special Collections
LevelItem
Ref NoMS 3286/2/6
Alt Ref NoBox 5/3/6
TitleDiary of undated expedition, possibly 1928
Date1928
Extent1 volume
DescriptionDiary with entries from 1 April to 20 June; no year given.

Mentions discussions with a German scholarfrom the German School at Constantinople who had been at Jutland and had also at the scuttling of the German fleet at Scapa Flow, and with other members of the German School.
Investigations at a place he calls Deli Köi, two hours south of Ilgin, where he finds 'not a scrap of antiquity'; however he lists various Christian inscriptions in the wider area and includes a rough sketch map of the region.
Calder is in Konya with a fever from 2 May to 7 May, then takes photographs and squezes at various places in the area. In early June he is taking squeezes at Kara Köi, Davolga[?], and Yukari.

The diary includes a number of unrelated loose enclosures and has been attributed to the year 1928 partly on the basis of the latest dated pf these. They include:

Two letters and a note from W.M. Ramsay, 1910 and undated, discussing Greek epigraphs

A number of letters and notes in Greek to Calder from the scholar Prodromos A. Petrides, 1914 and undated, with transcriptions of epigraphs from Konya

Press cutting of letter to The Times (no date) by Calder titled "Paul and Barnabas at Lystra" which discusses an inscription dedicating an altar to Zeus Helios, found by Ramsay and Calder near Lystra

Pale red exercise book
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