148: Washing the earth from round the Altar of Orthia

Department Archive
Collection 1936 Exhibition Collection
Reference No. 1936/1/5/9
Level Item
Dimensions 23 x 30.8 cm
Scope and Content Card base with attached photograph. The number 148 is pasted in the lower left corner. There are hole in the right corners and the left edge has been torn; it used to be a single panel with both images 147 and 148 attached. The original description in the catalogue reads: "Photographs of the Spartan Excavations in progress: Washing the earth from round the Altar of Orthia in sieves to recover small objects and broken fragments."
Notes In the Exhibition Catalogue this is under the subheading "Views and photographs of excavation"
Related records [BSA SPHS/1/6831.C6840], Plaster cast of the Spartan warrior known as 'Leonidas' in the gallery space at the 1936 Exhibition, Burlington House, London, 1936