Cos: Altar decorated with Wreaths

Department Archive
Collection BSA SPHS Image Collection
Reference No. BSA SPHS 03/0396.1712
Level Item
Description Glass lantern slide, standard 3.25 x 3.25 inch square.
Dimensions 8 x 8 cm
Place Kos
Kos Island
Dates 1888-1889
Donor/Creator Macmillan, Mr Malcolm
Dyer, Mr Louis
Scope and Content The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Cos: altar decorated with wreaths".
Notes Date of the image is prior to 1890 as photographs by Dyer and Macmillan were submitted to the Hellenic Society's collections and catalogued, see JHS 11 (1890) p. xxxviii.. The donors were were thought to be in Cyprus with E.A. Gardner (see JHS 9: 170) in 1888 and Malcolm Macmillan died in 1889. No negative is listed in the SPHS register, only a slide.
Reference 1922 JHS 42: 8th accession to 1913 slide catalogue. lvi.SPHS 1712. Link to article