Sparta, Sanctuary of Artemis Orthia: drawing (watercolour) of an Archaic Oinochoe

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Collection BSA SPHS Image Collection
Reference No. BSA SPHS 01/3981.7990
Level Item
Description Glass negative, quarter plate size, a copy negative from a drawing.
Dimensions 10.5 x 8 cm
Place Sparta Sanctuary of Artemis Orthia
Ancient Sparta
Dates 1906-1909
Donor/Creator The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies
Project Sparta Excavation 1906-1910
Scope and Content 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: "Vase from Sparta: oenochoe: frieze of beasts".
Notes Earliest date is based on the first season of excavation at Sparta and the latest date is based on the image appearing in the 1909 SPHS list of slide accessions. The image is duplicated in slide format in the Ashmolean Lantern Slide Teaching Collection, Oxford University, catalogue number XL206 as "Archaic oenochoe, sphinx and bird".
Reference 1909 JHS 29: 5th accession to 1904 slide catalogue. lxxxi.SPHS 7990. Link to article
1913 JHS 33: Catalogue of Slides. 114.SPHS 7990. Link to article