Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
June 17, 1806
Primary Source Reference:
Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 16
Notes:
The reference to Cidra is probably either to the present-day city of as Sidra, Libya, or to the medieval city of Sirte, which was located some 55 km east of present-day Sirte, at a site now known as al-Mudayna or Madina Sultan, where the ruins have been explored since the19th-century. Both Sidra and Sirte are on the Gulf of Sidra.
James Leander Cathcart (1767-1843) was at the time of this donation U.S. Consul General to the City of Tunis (1802–1807). His memoir relates that he returned to the U.S. in 1805, passing through Philadelphia in March. The Captives: Eleven Years a Prisoner in Algiers (La Porte, Ind., 1899), p. 308
