Sparta: Antefix (top) and Sima fragments (bottom)

Department Archive
Collection BSA SPHS Image Collection
Reference No. BSA SPHS 01/4791.9741
Level Item
Description Glass negative, full plate size, a copy negative produced from two half plate negatives.
Dimensions 24 x 17.5 cm
Place Ancient Sparta
Dates 1906-1910
Donor/Creator The British School at Athens
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: "Sparta: architectural terra cottas".
Notes Date range is based on the excavation of Sparta 1906-1910. Antefix in top half of the image is in the same image as BSA SPHS 01/7523.C2665 (see related record).
Related records [BSA SPHS 02/2/7951.9741], Sparta: Antefix (top) and Sima fragments (bottom), 1906-1910
[BSA SPHS 01/7523.C2665], Sparta, Sanctuary of Artemis Orthia: Antefixes, 1906-1910
[BSA SPHS 02/2/8007.C2665], Sparta, Sanctuary of Artemis Orthia: Antefixes, 1906-1910
Reference Dawkins, R.M. 1929. The sanctuary of Artemis Orthia at Sparta. 124, fig. 93.No. 21.
Dawkins, R.M. 1929. The sanctuary of Artemis Orthia at Sparta. 133, fig. 101.No. 35.