Minoan ivory figurine of a tonsured boy-god and a bronze bull with acrobat figurine in the gallery space of the 1936 Exhibition at Burlington House, London.
Department | Archive |
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Collection | BSA SPHS Image Collection |
Reference No. | BSA SPHS 01/6827.C6836 |
Level | Item |
Description | Glass negative, full plate size |
Dimensions | 16 x 21 cm |
Place |
Burlington House |
Dates | 1936 |
Donor/Creator |
The British School at Athens |
Scope and Content | Part of the collection of images from the 1936 Exhibition of Minoan Civilization and the first 50 years work of the BSA at Burlington House, London. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "(a) tonsured boy god (b) bronze bull+ acrobat". |
Notes | Date is the year listed in the description of the image in the SPHS register. The image was created in the gallery space of the 1936 Exhibition of Minoan Civilization and the first 50 years work of the BSA at Burlington House in London. See BSA SPHS 01/6793.C6802 (ivory boy-god) and BSA SPHS 01/6794.C6803 (bull leaping acrobat) photographed separately in the gallery space. Object is now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. |
Reference |
1936 Exhibition Catalogue. 17. |