Plate 38 of 2.2, from C.T. Newton’s A history of the discoveries at Halicarnassus, Cnidus and Branchidae vol. 2.2 (1863), detailing a photographic tower above a tessellated pavement. In a letter marked December 1856 Charles Thurston Newton writes:
“Before attempting to take up any floors, I had nearly the whole copied by photography, in the following manner:—The photographic lens was placed on a portable stage above the pavement, so as to take a vertical view of a small portion of it, and was shifted from point to point till views of the whole design had been obtained. Notes of the different colours were then made on the photographs. Exact plans of the patterns in each room were also made by Lieut. Smith. After all this had been done, I tried to take up some of the best of the floors (1865 II, 81).”
Newton, C.T., 1865: Travels and discoveries in the Levant, London.
 by Christopher Witmore
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