Mycenae: Vases from Tomb 518, Kalkani Cemetery

Department Archive
Collection BSA SPHS Image Collection
Reference No. BSA SPHS 01/3307.C0475
Level Item
Description The glass negative is a quarter plate size, a copy negative taken from drawings.
Condition Some black paint used to obscure the overlapping drawing edges.
Dimensions 10.5 x 8 cm
Place Mycenae: Kalkani Cemetery
Ancient Mycenae
Dates 1922
Donor/Creator The British School at Athens
Project Mycenae Excavation 1920-1923
Scope and Content Part of a collection of images of the BSA's 1920s excavations at Mycenae. The original description in the SPHS negative register reads: "Mycenae: Tomb 518, vases 266, 269, 280, 265, 276". Recorded in the register as from the 1922 season.
Notes Date is the year listed in the description of the image in the SPHS register. Two of the pots on this photograph appear on the 1936 Exhibition panel 106 as c and g. Related record BSA SPHS 01/0446.1841 is a photograph of the Ostrich egg vase from Tomb 518.
Related records [MYC 3/1/25/3], LH I Vase from Tomb 518, No. 31, 1920-1923
[BSA SPHS 01/0446.1841], Ostrich Egg from Mycenae, Kalkani Cemetery, Tomb 518, 1922
Reference Wace, A.J. 1932. Chamber tombs at Mycenae. 82: Pl. I.
Wace, A.J. 1932. Chamber tombs at Mycenae. 82: Pl. II.
Wace, A.J. 1932. Chamber tombs at Mycenae. 82: pl. IV.
Wace, A.J. 1932. Chamber tombs at Mycenae. 82: Pl. XLI.
1936 Exhibition Catalogue. 49.No. 106.