| Scope and Content |
Card base with one print plan and eight black and white photographs attached, labelled with the pasted letters a-k: g-i are all beside a single image (1936/02/02/25/07), while k appear twice, once alongside j (1936/02/02/25/08) and once alone (1936/02/02/25/09). The number 325 is pasted in the lower left corner. "Ithaca" is written in ink in the lower right corner. Each item has beside it a later annotation in pencil giving a bibliographic reference. The original description in the catalogue reads: "(a) Plan of the site. b. Corinthian import, but on unparalleled scale: 750-700 B.C. c-e. Local ware: unique in shape and decoration; inspired by proto-Corinthian and early-orientalizing models: 750-700 B.C. f. Vase of unusual 'candlestick' shape, perforated throughout: the latest local fabric: signed by the maker, Kalikleas: 700-675 B.C. g-i. Ivories: c. 800-600 B.C.: (g) frog; (h) monkey with child; (i) couchant ram. Compare those from the Orthia Sanctuary at Sparta. j, k. Bronzes: (j) horse: 900-700 B.C.; (k) sphinx: very early orientalizing; the type with outspread wings is very rare in Greek art: c. 750-700 B.C." |
