378: Kynosarges

Department Archive
Collection 1936 Exhibition Collection
Reference No. 1936/2/2/58
Level Item
Dimensions 73.6 x 46 cm
Scope and Content Card base with two black and white photographs attached, labelled with the pasted letter a and b. The number 378 is pasted in the lower left corner. "Kynosarges" is written in ink in the lower right corner, with a circled 7 in pencil below; "The relief is 21 in. high" is written in a smaller size on the left side of the base. The original description in the catalogue reads: "Kynosarges... a. Part of a mourning group on a tombstone from Kynosarges. The person commemorated is missing: he grasped the hand of the remaining male figure: about 400 B.C. b. Ionic capital from Kynosarges."
Notes In the Exhibition Catalogue this is under the subheading "Special Studies and Reconstructions"
Related records [1936/2/2/58/1], Sub-item, 378a: Part of a Mourning Group
[1936/2/2/58/2], Sub-item, 378b: Ionic Capital
[BSA SPHS/1/6841.C6850], View of the work of W.S. George as shown at the 1936 exhibition at Burlington House, London: 339 and 340. The Acropolis of Athens, 341. Fresco of a Young Armed Warrior (Acropolis Museum), 342. Head of Seti I, in soft limestone, once coloured. XIXth dynast, 1936