Cyprus, Kourion Acropolis

Department Archive
Collection BSA SPHS Image Collection
Reference No. BSA SPHS 01/0042.0313
Level Item
Description Glass negative, quarter plate size, a copy negative taken from a photographic print.
Condition Black paint over the sky to mask imperfections and dust particles.
Dimensions 10.5 x 8 cm
Place Kourion
Dates 1895
Donor/Creator Harrison, Miss Jane Ellen
Scope and Content The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Cyprus: Kurion. Acropolis 1895".
Notes Date based on the excavations mentioned in the caption of the first SPHS catalogue of the image collection in JHS for 1897. Identification of catalogue number based on paper labels with annotations crossed out: "Fb 13" and "111". Note the mention of Miss Jane Harrison's negatives added to the collection in the 1899 volume of the Journal of Hellenic Studies (p. xxxv in 'Proceedings of the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies. Session 1898-99' The Journal of Hellenic Studies, Vol. 19 (1899), pp. xxxiii-xliv). Printed on the image: "Site of Curium, shewing Acropolis and Scene of Excavations, 1895".
Reference 1897 JHS 17: Catalogue of Slides. lxiii.Fb 13. Link to article
1904 JHS 24: Catalogue of Slides. xci.SPHS 313. Link to article
1913 JHS 33: Catalogue of Slides. 23.SPHS 313. Link to article