Arkheologicheskoe puteshestvie po Sirii i Palestinie N.P. Kondakova
Kondakov's 1904 archaeological journey through Syria and Palestine, published in St Petersburg by the Imperial Academy of Sciences, is a scholarly survey of early Christian monuments for specialist art historians. Its photographs show carved column capitals in stone: a leafy scroll capital, a acanthus-leaf capital, and pierced openwork capitals, all shot in plain grey tones that suit studies of ornament.
