Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins
This 1878 periodical from Leipzig was issued by the German Palestine Exploration Society for scholars and readers interested in the antiquities of Palestine. Its plates show archaeological material such as a carved menorah relief with a measured scale, a plan of an excavated site, a cross-shaped baptismal basin drawn in elevation and plan, and a basalt pillar with a seven-branched candlestick and inscription. A designer could take from them the clean, measured line drawing style of 19th-century archaeological documentation, with dimension lines, scale bars and labelled sections.
