Mycenae: Jewels from Tomb 518, Kalkani Cemetery

Department Archive
Collection BSA SPHS Image Collection
Reference No. BSA SPHS 01/3305.C0473
Level Item
Description The glass negative is a quarter plate size, a copy negative taken from a drawing.
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, jewels" 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. The image appears in a plate in Wace 1932, in the centre of an image surrounded by sealstones from the same tomb. Number 75 is on left (side and top view), Numbers 76, 77 and 74 appear from top to bottom on the right.
Related records [MYC 3/3/11/7], Gold Jewellery from Tomb 518, 1920-1923
Reference Wace, A.J. 1932. Chamber tombs at Mycenae. 82: Pl. XXXVIII.(Top Middle).