11a: Flocks Returning at Evening

Department Archive
Collection 1936 Exhibition Collection
Reference No. 1936/1/1/7/1
Level Sub-item
Dimensions 16.1 x 27.7 cm
Scope and Content A photograph showing a flock of sheep travelling down a hill road from background right to foreground left. Behind the road is a hill, in front is the remains of a wall. The photograph is pasted to a thick card base, which in turn is pasted onto the base of this exhibit. The original description in the catalogue reads: "Flocks returning at evening (a) to the modern village, as they returned in Early Cycladic times. Clay oxen and pigs, and bones of domestic animals, fish, triton-shells and limpets were found in the early houses."
Related records [BSA SPHS/1/0698.2284], Melos, Phylakopi: Goats Returning to Subterranean Fold, 1911
[1936/1/1/7], 11: Flocks Returning at Evening and The Bathing Cove below the Prehistoric Site