326: Map of the Site of Megalopolis

Department Archive
Collection 1936 Exhibition Collection
Reference No. 1936/2/2/26
Level Item
Dimensions 50.8 x 66.3 cm
Donor/Creator Weir Schultz, Mr Robert
Loring, Mr William
Scope and Content Ink map titled "Megalopolis A General Plan of the Thersileion and of the Theatre" in the lower right. Beneath the title is a key for the different lines drawn on the map. In the lower left there is a compass, scale bars, and the names of the drawers. There is a border around the map; the number 326 is pasted in the lower left corner outside this border. In the upper right corner outside the border is a later annotation in pencil giving a bibliographic reference. The original description in the catalogue reads: "Map of the site of Megalopolis, showing the Walls, Theatre, Assembly Hall and other buildings."
Notes In the Exhibition Catalogue this is under the subheading "Megalopolis"
Related records [BSA SPHS/1/6841.C6850], View of the work of W.S. George as shown at the 1936 exhibition at Burlington House, London: 339 and 340. The Acropolis of Athens, 341. Fresco of a Young Armed Warrior (Acropolis Museum), 342. Head of Seti I, in soft limestone, once coloured. XIXth dynast, 1936