104a-d: Works of Art -Beehive Tombs and Kalkani Cemetery

Department Archive
Collection 1936 Exhibition Collection
Reference No. 1936/1/4/2
Level Item
Dimensions 37 x 55.9 cm
Scope and Content Cut up card base with four images attached. Three of the images are labelled with the pasted letters b-d; the letters b and c have lines drawn over them in pencil. To the right of the unlabelled image is a slightly paler square where there could have been a label. In the lower left corner of the leftmost panel is a paler square with some residue, where a panel number may have been removed. The panel with an unlabelled image (1936/01/04/02/01) has an 8 in a diamond in pencil in the lower left corner. The panel labelled c (1936/01/04/02/02) has a 10 in a diamond in pencil in the top right corner. The panel labelled b (1936/01/04/02/03) has a 9 in a diamond in pencil in the lower left corner, a 56 in blue pencil in the lower right corner, which has been crossed out in pencil and 55 written beside it, and to the right of the label is 2/1 written in biro. The panel labelled d (1936/01/04/02/04) has 104 d in pencil in the top right corner and a bibliographic reference beneath it. The original description in the catalogue reads: "a. Bronze mirrors with (b) carved ivory handles, from the woman's grave in the entrance passage of the "Tomb of Clytemnestra," L.H. III (1400-1100 B.C.). c. Ivory inlay from a wooden casket, from Tomb 518, L.H. II (1500-1400 B.C.). d. Fragments of ivory plaque (restored drawing), showing guardian lions in heraldic posture, from "Tomb of Aegisthus," L.H. II (1500-1400 B.C.).”
Notes In the Exhibition Catalogue this is under the subheading "Works of Art mostly from the Beehive Tombs and Kalkani Cemetery"
Related records [MYC/3/4/10], Objects from Beehive Tombs and Kalkani Cemetery, 1920-1923
[1936/1/4/3], 104e-f: Works of Art-Beehive tombs an Kalkani Cemetery
[1936/1/4/4], 104g-h: Works of Art