Tiryns: Staircase

Department Archive
Collection BSA SPHS Image Collection
Reference No. BSA SPHS 01/1356.3432
Level Item
Description Glass negative, quarter plate size, a copy negative taken from a photographic print.
Condition The sky has been marked with black paint to produce a clear white sky. The stones of the staircase have been retouched.
Dimensions 10.5 x 8 cm
Place Tiryns
Dates Latest 1897
Donor/Creator Atchley, Shirley Clifford
English Photographic Company
Scope and Content The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Tiryns: staircase". A commercial image from the English Photographic Company.
Notes A commercial image from the English Photographic Company. Based on numerous images from the English Photographic Company donated via Shirley Atchley catalogued from SPHS 3401 to 3407; 3421 to 3439 appearing in the 1897 slide catalogue in the Journal of Hellenic Studies, it probably dates no later than 1897. The negative is marked as Tc. 4. and contains a very cropped caption which reads: "Postern staircase [...]"
Reference 1897 JHS 17: Catalogue of Slides. lxi.Dc 22. Link to article
1902 JHS 22: 2nd accession to 1900 slide catalogue. lx.Dc 22.SPHS 3432. Link to article
1904 JHS 24: Catalogue of Slides. cii.SPHS 3432. Link to article
1913 JHS 33: Catalogue of Slides. 45.SPHS 3432. Link to article
1913 JHS 33: Catalogue of Slides. 67.SPHS 3432. Link to article