Geraki: Hero relief and grave relief

Department Archive
Collection BSA SPHS Image Collection
Reference No. BSA SPHS 01/1019.2836
Level Item
Description Film negative, half plate size, an original negative.
Dimensions 15.5 x 12 cm
Place Geraki
Dates Latest 1905
Donor/Creator Wace, Mr Alan John Bayard
Project Laconia Excavations 1905
Scope and Content Part of a collection of images from the BSA excavations at Geraki near Sparta in 1905. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Geraki: hero relief & grave relief".
Notes Catalogued with the Geraki excavation report, although the reliefs were not recovered as part of the excavation. They were preserved in the house of M. G. Papanikolaou, the Demarch of Geraki. Some were published previously (by B. Schröder in the 1904 Athenische Mittteilungen and by Tod and Wace in the 1906 Catalogue of the Sparta Museum).
Related records [BSA SPHS 01/3905.7532], Relief sculpture from Geraki, Latest 1905