Palaikastro: Early Stone Vases

Department Archive
Collection BSA SPHS Image Collection
Reference No. BSA SPHS 01/0114.0976
Level Item
Description Glass negative, full plate size, a copy negative.
Dimensions 21.5 x 16 cm
Place Roussolakkos: Block X
Roussolakkos
Palaikastro
Dates 1904
Donor/Creator The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies
Project Palaikastro Excavation 1902-1906
Scope and Content Part of a group of images from the British School at Athens excavations at Palaikastro, Crete in the 1902-1905. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Early stone vases to P.K.".
Notes Date is based on the third season of excavation at Palaikastro. The objects are part of a large cache of stone vessels found in a house. It is incorrectly identified in the 1904 JHS image catalogue as R.F. Vase, Birth of Athena on both pages cxi and cxxii.
Reference The unpublished objects from the Palaikastro excavations, 1902-1906, Part I. 1: pl. XXX.