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Title: Rusicade: théâtre romain, Philippeville
Date (inclusive): 1895
Number: 90.R.1
Creator/Collector:
Ranoux, Henri
Physical Description:
1 album(s)
(30 photographic prints)
Repository:
The Getty Research Institute
Special Collections
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles 90049-1688
Business Number: (310) 440-7390
Fax Number: (310) 440-7780
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URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10020/askref
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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: Collection material is in
French.
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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Rusicade : théâtre romain, Philippeville, 1895, Getty Research Institute, Research Library,
Accession no. 90.R.1
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa90r1
Acquired in 1990.
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).
The collection was digitized by the repository and the images are available online:
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/90r1
Scope and Content of Collection
This album of cyanotypes records archaeological investigations at the ancient site of
Rusicada, 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
19th-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. This album depicts many of the objects
not illustrated in the 1896 museum catalog 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.
Arranged in a single series: Series I. Rusicade: théâtre romain, Philippeville, 1895.
Mithraism
Excavations (Archaeology) -- Algeria -- Skikda
Theaters -- Algeria -- Skikda
Architecture, Roman -- Algeria -- Skikda
Art, Roman -- Algeria -- Skikda
Rome - Antiquities
Skikdah (Algeria) -- Antiquities, Roman
Cyanotypes -- Algeria -- 19th century
Bertrand, Louis,
1866-1941
Ranoux, Henri