Rhitsona [Mycalessus]: Male Terracotta Figurine of 'Cheese Grater'

Department Archive
Collection BSA SPHS Image Collection
Reference No. BSA SPHS 01/0545.2005
Level Item
Description The glass negative is a quarter plate size, a copy negative.
Dimensions 10.5 x 8.5 cm
Place Rhitsona
Dates 1907
Donor/Creator Burrows, Professor Ronald Montagu
Project Rhitsona Excavation 1907-1909
Scope and Content Part of a group of images from the British School at Athens excavations at Rhitsona in Boeotia in 1907 and 1908. The original description in the SPHS negative register reads: "Mycalessus: T.C. figurine of 'cheese grater'". Rhisona was identified by the excavator, R. Burrows, as the ancient site of Mycalessus.
Notes Dates based on the excavation of Rhitsona (ancient Mycalessus) and the publication of the object.
Reference 1908. BSA 14: 296, fig. 21. Link to article
1909 JHS 29: 5th accession to 1904 slide catalogue. lxxxiii.SPHS 2005. Link to article
1913 JHS 33: Catalogue of Slides. 111.SPHS 2005. Link to article