Knossos: Throne Room during Excavation

Department Archive
Collection BSA SPHS Image Collection
Reference No. BSA SPHS 01/0094.0844
Level Item
Description Glass negative, quarter plate size, a copy negative taken from a photographic print.
Dimensions 10.5 x 8 cm
Place Palace of Minos
Knossos
Dates 1900
Donor/Creator Burrows, Professor Ronald Montagu
Myres, Sir John Linton
Scope and Content The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Cnossos: Crete. Throne room in course of excavations".
Notes Date based on the excavation of Throne Room at Knossos (pers. comm. V. Fotou 2019). The number printed on the photograph (265) corresponds to numbers on photographs of Knossos in Evans' archive in Oxford. It was not photographed by Burrows, but may have been taken by J.L. Myres. (see photo A. Brown 1983. Arthur Evans and the Palace of Minos p. 36 , fig. 14 which shows the front cover of The Cretan Exploration Fund for 1900 with this image on the cover).
Reference 1901. Man. 1, no. 2: front cover. Link to article
1904 JHS 24: Catalogue of Slides. xcii.SPHS 844. Link to article
1913 JHS 33: Catalogue of Slides. 24.SPHS 844. Link to article