Astypalaea: the screen in the church of Panagia Portaritissa

Department Archive
Collection BSA SPHS Image Collection
Reference No. BSA SPHS 01/1043.2861
Level Item
Description Film negative, approximately half plate size, an original negative.
Condition Negative faded.
Dimensions 16 x 12 cm
Place Astypalaea
Astypalaia Island
Dates 1906
Donor/Creator Wace, Mr Alan John Bayard
Project Dodecanese & Cyclades 1906-1907
Scope and Content Part of a collection of images from Wace and Dawkins' travels to the Dodecanese and the Cyclades between 1906 and 1907, primarily to collect textiles. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Astypalaea: Panagia Portaritissa".
Notes Date based on Wace and Dawkins visit to the Cyclades and Dodecanese in 1906 (Dawkins, R.M. and A.J.B. Wace 1905/1906. 'Notes from the Sporades, Astypalaea, Telos, Nisyros, Leros' Annual of the British School at Athens 12: 151-174). The image was used for the 1936 Exhibition of Minoan Civilization and the first 50 years work of the BSA at Burlington House in London. This image appears in the SPHS Slide Set: No Author (ca. 1932) The Greek Church, slide number 26.
Related records [BRF/02/01/16/013], Panagia Portaitissa, before 1913
Reference 1909 JHS 29: 5th accession to 1904 slide catalogue. lxxx.SPHS 2861. Link to article
1913 JHS 33: Catalogue of Slides. 26.SPHS 2861. Link to article
1913 JHS 33: Catalogue of Slides. 73.SPHS 2861. Link to article
1936 Exhibition Catalogue. 88.No. 397b.