314: Thermi, Antissa

Department Archive
Collection 1936 Exhibition Collection
Reference No. 1936/2/2/14
Level Item
Dimensions 40.6 x 60.9 cm
Scope and Content Card base with six black and white photographs attached. Two images (1936/02/02/14/01 and 04) have the letter A written in pencil to the left of the top left corner; the two images in the centre (1936/02/02/14/02 and 03) are one above the other with a pasted b below them; and the final two images have the pasted labels c and d. The number 314 is pasted in the lower left corner. "Thermi" and "Antissa" are written in ink in the lower right corner. There are later annotations in pencil giving bibliographic references for each image. The original description in the catalogue reads: "Bronze birds; from the First Settlement: about 3700-2800 B.C. … 314 b. Grey pottery from Antissa, developed from wares like the 'Minyan' fabric of the Late Bronze Age. c, d. The Apsidal Temples, superposed. The earlier (c. 1000-800 B.C.) had the apse at the east end. The later (c. 800-600 B.C.), on the same foundations, had the apse to the west, so that the combined plan appears oval."
Notes In the Exhibition Catalogue this is under the subheading "Thermi and Antissa in Lesbos"
Related records [BSA SPHS/1/6833.C6842], Perachora: Temple models from Perachora and Argive Heraeum in the gallery space of the 1936 Exhibition, Burlington House, London, 1936