Knossos: Miscellaneous pottery and lamps

Department Archive
Collection BSA SPHS Image Collection
Reference No. BSA SPHS 01/1478.3835
Level Item
Description Glass negative, quarter plate size, a copy negative taken from two overlapping photographic prints.
Dimensions 10.5 x 8 cm
Place Palace of Minos
Knossos
Dates 1900
Donor/Creator Evans, Sir Arthur John
Myres, Sir John Linton
Scope and Content The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Cnossos: Miscellaneous pottery and lamps".
Notes Date based on the first year of excavation at Knossos when Myres was present. The initials JLM is written on the negative indicating that the photograph may have been taken by Myres. Numbers 99 and 78 are written above the prints, but are crossed out and may relate to numbers in the Evans archive in the Ashmolean, Oxford. It also appears as negative number 3835 in the J.L. Myres negative register held by the archives at the Institute of Archaeology, Oxford University. Register reads: "Alabaster & Gypsum vases". Other Collections: The image is duplicated in slide format in the Ashmolean Lantern Slide Teaching Collection, Oxford University, catalogue number XJ47 and XJ48 (duplicate slides) as "Knossos, stone vases".