Sparta: Marble male portrait head of Late Roman Age from the Theatre

Department Archive
Collection BSA SPHS Image Collection
Reference No. BSA SPHS 02/1/8162.C2719
Level Item
Description Small print photograph pasted onto an index card, originally part of the SPHS image library catalogue.
Dimensions 16.5 x 11 cm (index card)
Place Sparta Theatre
Ancient Sparta
Dates 1926
Donor/Creator The British School at Athens
Project Sparta Excavation 1924-1927
Scope and Content Part of the collection of images, 1924-1927, of the British School at Athens excavations at Sparta, Laconia. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Sparta, 1926. Theatre. Marble male portrait-head of 3rd cent. after Christ, much damaged".
Notes Date is the year listed in the description of the image in the SPHS register. This index card is part of the BSA Sparta Theatre Collection, Waywell & Wilkes (Inventoried 2019).
Related records [BSA SPHS 01/7552.C2719], Sparta: Marble male portrait head of Late Roman Age from the Theatre, 1926
Reference 1926. BSA 28: 29-30, fig. 8.No. 4 (M 3964). Link to article