355: Rhitsona in Boeotia

Department Archive
Collection 1936 Exhibition Collection
Reference No. 1936/2/2/48
Level Item
Dimensions 74 x 56.2 cm
Scope and Content Card base with five watercolour illustrations attached, labelled with the pasted letters a,b,c,c,d. The number 355 is pasted in the lower left corner. "Rhitsona R.M.Burrows P.Ure" is written in ink in the lower right corner. Beside each image is a later annotation in pencil giving a bibliographic reference. The original description in the catalogue reads: "a. Statuette of a goddess, gaily painted, with genial archaic features: 600-500 B.C. b. Cook, grating cheese: his carving knife lies on a rest beside him: 600-500 B.C. c. Polychrome cup: a chieftain mounts to his seat beside the charioteer. d. Naukratite vase, of imported fabric (cf. 354 above): farmyard scene: about 550 B.C. The late R. M. Burrows; Professor P. N. Ure."
Notes In the Exhibition Catalogue this is under the subheading "Special Studies of Greek Pottery"