About the BSA SPHS Image Collection
The SPHS photographic collection was amassed by The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies between 1891 and 1967 through the donation of images. It contained negatives, both glass and film in a variety of sizes, photographic prints and glass lantern slides. It contains both original and copy negatives. Index cards with small contact prints served as finding aids for the collection. It was designed as an image reference collection where images could be duplicated as either prints or slides and sold or lent to members.
The BSA SPHS Collection is part of the original SPHS photographic collection, selected by donors who were associated with the BSA or images of topographic interest, particularly in areas the BSA was known to have worked. The remainder of the extant SPHS collection went to the Hellenic Literary and Historical Archives (MIET-ELIA) in Athens. Documentation for this collection consists of 5 Negative registers (held in the SPHS offices in London), the published catalogues or accession lists of lantern slides in The Journal of Hellenic Studies, the Minute Book December 1949-January 1983 for the Photographic and Filmstrip Committee of the SPHS (held in the SPHS Library in London) and information contained on extant index cards.
Part of the collection of images, 1906-1910, of the British School at Athens excavations at Sparta, Laconia. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Sparta: limestone relief of dogs".
Part of the collection of images, 1906-1910, of the British School at Athens excavations at Sparta, Laconia. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Sparta: Orthia terra-cottas".
Part of the collection of images, 1906-1910, of the British School at Athens excavations at Sparta, Laconia. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Sparta: solid lead figurines
Part of the collection of images, 1906-1910, of the British School at Athens excavations at Sparta, Laconia. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Sparta: ivory (a) bone beads (b) ivory warrior".
Part of the collection of images, 1906-1910, of the British School at Athens excavations at Sparta, Laconia. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Sparta: bone seals, figures and plectra".
Part of the collection of images, 1906-1910, of the British School at Athens excavations at Sparta, Laconia. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Sparta: bone objects and flutes".
Part of the collection of images, 1906-1910, of the British School at Athens excavations at Sparta, Laconia. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Sparta: ivory couchant Animals"
Part of the collection of images, 1906-1910, of the British School at Athens excavations at Sparta, Laconia. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Sparta: ivory combs".
Part of the collection of images, 1906-1910, of the British School at Athens excavations at Sparta, Laconia. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Sparta: ivories, miscellaneous".
Part of the collection of images, 1906-1910, of the British School at Athens excavations at Sparta, Laconia. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Sparta: bone xoana".
Part of the collection of images, 1906-1910, of the British School at Athens excavations at Sparta, Laconia. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Sparta: ivory beasts".
Part of the collection of images, 1906-1910, of the British School at Athens excavations at Sparta, Laconia. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Sparta: bone and ivory spectacle fibulae".
Part of the collection of images, 1906-1910, of the British School at Athens excavations at Sparta, Laconia. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Sparta: bone seals and pinheads".
Part of the collection of images, 1906-1910, of the British School at Athens excavations at Sparta, Laconia. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Sparta: bone plaques of birds, TC".
Part of the collection of images, 1906-1910, of the British School at Athens excavations at Sparta, Laconia. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Sparta: ivory seals".
Part of the collection of images, 1906-1910, of the British School at Athens excavations at Sparta, Laconia. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Sparta: bone pendants, heads and double axes".
Part of the collection of images, 1906-1910, of the British School at Athens excavations at Sparta, Laconia. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Sparta: large terrecotta head".
Part of the collection of images, 1906-1910, of the British School at Athens excavations at Sparta, Laconia. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Sparta: ivories and Byzantine jewellery".
Part of the collection of images, 1906-1910, of the British School at Athens excavations at Sparta, Laconia. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Sparta: (a) marble head of Pan, (b) incised design, limestone".
Part of the collection of images, 1906-1910, of the British School at Athens excavations at Sparta, Laconia. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Sparta: (a) limestone relief, man (b) limestone sphynx and bust".
Part of the collection of images, 1906-1910, of the British School at Athens excavations at Sparta, Laconia. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Sparta: (a) moulded pithos fragment (b) limestone relief, couchant Lions".
Part of the collection of images, 1906-1910, of the British School at Athens excavations at Sparta, Laconia. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Sparta: (a) ivory plaque, centaur (b) part of large T.C. figure".
Part of the collection of images, 1906-1910, of the British School at Athens excavations at Sparta, Laconia. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Sparta: mask".
Part of the collection of images, 1906-1910, of the British School at Athens excavations at Sparta, Laconia. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Sparta: 2 masks".
Part of the collection of images, 1906-1910, of the British School at Athens excavations at Sparta, Laconia. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Sparta: Orthia excavations 1908, 5th century houses beneath R. foundations".
Part of the collection of images, 1906-1910, of the British School at Athens excavations at Sparta, Laconia. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Sparta: (a) armed Aphrodite (b) trumpeter Chalkiokos".
Part of the collection of images, 1906-1910, of the British School at Athens excavations at Sparta, Laconia. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Sparta: bronze bells, Chalkiokos".
Part of the collection of images, 1906-1910, of the British School at Athens excavations at Sparta, Laconia. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Sparta: 2 masks".
Part of the collection of images, 1906-1910, of the British School at Athens excavations at Sparta, Laconia. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Sparta: 2 masks".
Part of the collection of images, 1906-1910, of the British School at Athens excavations at Sparta, Laconia. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Sparta: 2 masks".
Part of the collection of images, 1906-1910, of the British School at Athens excavations at Sparta, Laconia. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Sparta: 2 masks".
Part of the collection of images, 1906-1910, of the British School at Athens excavations at Sparta, Laconia. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Sparta: 2 masks".
Part of the collection of images, 1906-1910, of the British School at Athens excavations at Sparta, Laconia. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Sparta: mask, a satyr".
Part of a collection of images from Wace & Thompson's excavation at Tsangli 1910. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Wace and Thompson: Prehist. Thessaly, Vases from Tsangli, later undecorated".
Part of a collection of images from Wace & Thompson's excavation at Rakhmani 1910. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Wace and Thompson: Prehist. Thessaly, Rakhmani II Ware".
Part of a collection of images from Wace & Thompson's excavations at Tsangli 1910. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Wace and Thompson: Prehist. Thessaly, stems of fruit stands, TC".
Part of a collection of images from the Wace & Droop excavations at Theotokou in 1907. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Wace and Thompson: Prehist. Thessaly, Theotoku vases".
Part of a collection of images from Wace & Thompson's excavation at Tsangli 1910. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Wace and Thompson: Prehist. Thessaly, Tsangli sherds".
Part of a collection of images from Wace & Thompson's excavation at Rakhmani 1910. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Wace and Thompson: Prehist. Thessaly, Rakhmani Celts etc".
Part of a collection of images from Wace & Thompson's excavation at Rakhmani 1910. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Wace and Thompson: Prehist. Thessaly, Rakhmani miscellaneous".
Part of a collection of images from Wace & Thompson's excavation at Tsangli 1910. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Wace and Thompson: Prehist. Thessaly, Tsangli pottery".
Part of a collection of images from Wace & Thompson's excavation at Tsangli 1910. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Wace and Thompson: Prehist. Thessaly, Terra Cotta figurines from Tsangli".
Part of a collection of images from Wace & Thompson's excavation at Tsangli 1910. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Wace and Thompson: Prehist. Thessaly, Celts, figurines tc, from Tsangli".
Part of a collection of images from Wace & Thompson's excavation at Tsangli 1910. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Wace and Thompson: Prehist. Thessaly, Vase from Tsangli".
Part of a collection of images from Dawkins' visit to Cyprus in 1908. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Archaic TC head, Cyprus Museum".
Part of a collection of images from Dawkins' visit to Cyprus in 1908. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Vase: Late Mycenaean, Cyprus Museum".
Part of a collection of images from Dawkins' visit to Cyprus in 1908. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Three Vases: Late Mycenaean, Cyprus Museum".
Part of a collection of images from Dawkins' visit to Cyprus in 1908. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Marble head".
Part of a collection of images from Dawkins' visit to Cyprus in 1908. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Vase, Late Mycenaean, Cyprus Museum".
Part of a collection of images from Dawkins' visit to Cyprus in 1908. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Vase, Late Mycenaean, Cyprus Museum".