| Scope and Content |
Card base with seven colour illustrations, with the pasted labels -, c, b, c, d, c, e. Above is a 25.5 x 25.3 cm hole where an image has been removed, with the pasted label a. The number 323 is pasted in the lower left corner. "Salamis. Poli." is written in ink in the lower centre. To the left of the hole is written in ink "The bull capital is 3 feet high: The statuette is 2 feet.". Above this is a later annotation in pencil which reads "Can't find any of this". The original description in the catalogue reads: "a. Marble capital with projecting head of a winged bull, reminiscent of Persian palace-architecture, found in the Agora at Salamis, now in the British Museum. b. Statuette of painted terracotta, now in the British Museum. c. Fragments of larger statues, of the same fabric, with elaborately patterned robes. POLI... d. Aphrodite riding on a swan: Attic lekythos, about 440 B.C. attributed to the 'Achilles painter': found in a tomb at Poli. Now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. e. Arming a warrior, on a white Attic lekythos. Found in the same tomb Now in the British Museum." |
