88: A Larnax Burial

Department Archive
Collection 1936 Exhibition Collection
Reference No. 1936/1/3/9/1
Level Sub-item
Dimensions 27.9 x 20.3 cm
Scope and Content A photograph showing an excavation site, with a pit containing bones n the centre. 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: "A Larnax burial. These burials in clay chests were the characteristic manner of disposal of the dead in the Late Minoan III period; many were found in the plain of Palaikastro."
Notes In the Exhibition Catalogue this is under the subheading "Photographs of Palaikastro"
Related records [BSA SPHS/1/4897.6016], Palaikastro: Larnakes burials, 1903
[BSA SPHS/3/3649.6016], Palaikastro: Larnax burials on cliff site, 1903
[1936/1/3/9], 88: A Larnax Burial