About the 1936 Exhibition Collection
The British School at Athens celebrated its 50th anniversary in 1936 with a large public exhibition at Burlington House at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. The exhibition, British Archaeological Discoveries in Greece and Crete 1886-1936, consisted of a special display of Minoan culture related to the discoveries at Knossos by Sir Arthur Evans as well as the excavations of the School including: Phylakopi, Kamares Cave, Palaikastro, Mycenae, Sparta, Perachora, Thessaly, Macedonia, Lesbos, Cyprus, Ithaca, and Megalopolis (Arcadia). It also included displays of Travels and Studies in Greece and Asia Minor, the Genose in the Levant, Monasteries in Athos, Byzantine Music, Byzantine Architecture and Decorative Arts, Greek Island Embroideries, Special Studies of Greek Pottery and Sculpture, Restoration of Ancient Monuments, Studies of Modern Greek Life and the School buildings and officers.
Since original ancient artifacts could not be transported to the exhibition in London, the displays consisted of replicas of ancient artifacts, modern ethnographic artifacts and illustrative panels with original watercolour drawings, many of which were done by Émile Gilliéron and Piet de Jong, and photographs.
The 1936 Exhibition Collection contains the surviving panels with original artwork from this exhibition.
The original description in the catalogue reads: "Figures of warriors: Note the plaque resembling the ivory plaques for fibulae."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "Figures of warriors: Note the plaque resembling the ivory plaques for fibulae."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "Figures of warriors: Note the plaque resembling the ivory plaques for fibulae."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "Figures of warriors: Note the plaque resembling the ivory plaques for fibulae."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "The Orthia goddess with attendants; she holds a pair of lions by their tails."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "The Orthia goddess with attendants; she holds a pair of lions by their tails."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "The Orthia goddess with attendants; she holds a pair of lions by their tails."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "The Orthia goddess with attendants; she holds a pair of lions by their tails."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "The Orthia goddess with attendants; she holds a pair of lions by their tails."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "The Orthia goddess with attendants; she holds a pair of lions by their tails."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "The Orthia goddess with attendants; she holds a pair of lions by their tails."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "The Orthia goddess with attendants; she holds a pair of lions by their tails."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "The Orthia goddess with attendants; she holds a pair of lions by their tails."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "The Orthia goddess with attendants; she holds a pair of lions by their tails."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "The Orthia goddess with attendants; she holds a pair of lions by their tails."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "The Orthia goddess with attendants; she holds a pair of lions by their tails."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "The Orthia goddess with attendants; she holds a pair of lions by their tails."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "Pendants and ornaments: note the Double Axe, surviving as an amulet from Minoan times."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "Pendants and ornaments: note the Double Axe, surviving as an amulet from Minoan times."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "Pendants and ornaments: note the Double Axe, surviving as an amulet from Minoan times."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "Pendants and ornaments: note the Double Axe, surviving as an amulet from Minoan times."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "Pendants and ornaments: note the Double Axe, surviving as an amulet from Minoan times."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "Pendants and ornaments: note the Double Axe, surviving as an amulet from Minoan times."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "Pendants and ornaments: note the Double Axe, surviving as an amulet from Minoan times."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "Pendants and ornaments: note the Double Axe, surviving as an amulet from Minoan times."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "Pendants and ornaments: note the Double Axe, surviving as an amulet from Minoan times."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "Pendants and ornaments: note the Double Axe, surviving as an amulet from Minoan times."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "Pendants and ornaments: note the Double Axe, surviving as an amulet from Minoan times."
The items in this section of the exhibition were numbered 200-260, with no items 226-230. Items 231-260 were physical objects no longer in the possession of the BSA. 217 and 219 are missing.
An ink plan, drawn on paper and pasted onto canvas. Title in top left "Perachora Sketch Survey of Site." There is a scale bar along the lower left, and the artist's name (Piet de Jong) is written in the lower right corner. The original description in the catalogue reads: "General Plan of the Site and Excavations."
A black and white photograph looking down into a circular cistern with water at the bottom. The original description in the catalogue reads: "Hellenistic Cistern."
A black and white print of an isometric drawing of a building, with a scale bar and compass at the bottom. Some pencil annotations from the original image are visible, including a title: "Perachora 1932 Isometric View of Temple of Hera". In the lower right corner is written "Piet de Jong". A small amount of the original card base is visible at certain points along the edges. On the lower left corner of the image is written in pencil 205, and then lighter, a. The original description in the catalogue reads: "The third temple of Hera Akraia, isometric drawing."
A black and white print titled 'Perachora Longitudinal section through site'. A pencil drawing from the original image is visible at the top of the print. At the bottom is a scale bar and cardinal directions and arrows pointing west (left) and east (right). In the lower left is written "1929" and the lower right "1932". A small amount of the original card base is visible at certain points along the edges, and on part of this below the image is the pasted letter b, with 205 written in pencil to the left. The original description in the catalogue reads: "Longitudinal section through the site. Left to right: lighthouse rocks, market place, temple of Hera Akraia, portico, cistern, Roman house walls, temple of Hera Limenia."
A black and white print titled 'Longitudinal section', showing an underground cistern. There is a key to the left and a compass beneath, then a plan from above, and a scale in metres at the bottom. 205 c is written in pencil in the lower left. The original description in the catalogue reads: "Section of the great cistern."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "206, 208. Terracotta Slabs, with which the upper part of the third temple of Hera Akraia was faced: water-colour drawings."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "The Entablature of the Third Temple of Hera Akraia (c. 525 B.C.): cf. 210."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "The Entablature of the Third Temple of Hera Akraia (c. 525 B.C.): cf. 210."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "206, 208. Terracotta Slabs, with which the upper part of the third temple of Hera Akraia was faced: water-colour drawings."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "206, 208. Terracotta Slabs, with which the upper part of the third temple of Hera Akraia was faced: water-colour drawings."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "206, 208. Terracotta Slabs, with which the upper part of the third temple of Hera Akraia was faced: water-colour drawings."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "206, 208. Terracotta Slabs, with which the upper part of the third temple of Hera Akraia was faced: water-colour drawings."
Card base with black and white photograph taken from the bottom of a set of steps photograph attached. The letter a is pasted in the centre of the lower edge. The original description in the catalogue reads: "Steps leading down to a cistern."
Card base with one black and white photograph showing the corner of an excavated site, with a complete building in the background. attached. The letter b is pasted in the centre of the lower edge of the base. The original description in the catalogue reads: "Portico, with the chapel of St. John, built over the first (Geometric) temple of Hera Akraia. The chapel has since been removed and rebuilt on another site."
Card base with one black and white photograph with a rock with an inscription on it at the bottom. A person is holding up something white to block out the back ground: their hands and neck can be seen at the top of the image. The letter c is pasted in the centre of the lower edge of the base. The original description in the catalogue reads: "Seventh-century inscription on one of the sides of the altar (212c), 'I am a drachma for Hera of the White Arms.' This stone originally supported an offering, perhaps a drachma or handful of iron spits (which were the earliest coinage) like those dedicated at the Argive Heraeum, and the Orthia Sanctuary (195)."
Five rows of black and white illustrations. Title in top in pencil "Elevation of sixth century temple of Hera Akraia", with "sixth century" crossed out. The illustrations have labels in ink: "plan of raking cornice"; "plan of tympanum blocks"; "plan of main cornice" "elevation of frieze and pediment" and "section through frieze" (both on same section); and "soffit plan of main cornice". There is a scale bar of metres at the bottom, and the illustrator's name in the lower right corner. Some further annotations in ink and pencil. The original description in the catalogue reads: "The Third Temple of Hera Akraia: elevation: a working drawing, not yet revised in all details."
An illustration of the top of an ionic column. Title at the top reads "Half full size details of ionic cap from Heraion Peraxora." The original description in the catalogue reads: "Ionic Column from the Portico: early 4th century."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "Wall surrounding the sanctuary of Hera Limenia."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "Hellenistic drain: the cistern (204) is at the lower end."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "Altar inside the temple of Hera Limenia (7th century). Three sides are formed of inscribed stones which had already been used to support dedications (cf. 209c)."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "Altar of the third temple of Hera Akraia: the triglyphs are very rarely set thus on ground level. In front, a column of the fourth-century portico."