Drawings of Kamares Vases from the Kamares Cave

Department Archive
Collection BSA SPHS Image Collection
Reference No. BSA SPHS 01/0004.A15
Level Item
Description The glass negative is a quarter plate size, a copy negative.
Dimensions 10.5 x 8 cm
Place Kamares Cave
Dates 1913
Donor/Creator The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies
Project Kamares Cave Excavation 1913
Scope and Content Part of the collection of images of the British School at Athens excavations at Kamares Cave, Crete in 1913. The original description in the SPHS negative register reads: "Kamares vases BSA excavations 1913". The drawing was possibly done by R.M. Dawkins or J.P. Droop. Listed as a Colour Slide in the SPHS negative register (A series), but the negative is black and white.
Notes Date based on the excavation date of the Kamares Cave and the publication of the image. The A series of negatives were created for colour slides produced from a colour drawings, but the extant negatives marked in the A series are black and white.

The image is duplicated in slide format in the Ashmolean Lantern Slide Teaching Collection, Oxford University, catalogue number XJ143 as "M.M. polychrome: crocus-vase, coloured slide".The Oxford colour slides were said to have been made using the Sanger Shepherd Process.
Reference 1913. BSA 19: pl. X (bottom). Link to article
1913 JHS 33: Catalogue of Slides. 11.SPHS A.15. Link to article
1913 JHS 33: Slide Lists. 149.SPHS A.15. Link to article
1913 JHS 33: Catalogue of Slides. 59.SPHS A.15. Link to article